Exploring Rhetorical Devices and Techniques

What is the term for a reference to a person, place, or event, especially from literature, history, or the Bible? These references can be direct or indirect.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

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Identify the literary device used in the following sentence: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'."

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• Anastrophe

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

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Which term describes the repetition of the first word or phrase in successive sentences?

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

• Asyndeton

• Juxtaposition

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What is the term for the inversion of typical word order in a sentence?

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Anaphora

• Anastrophe

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Which rhetorical device involves the opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel structure?

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Anaphora

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Identify the term for the omission of conjunctions in a list.

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

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What is the term for the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas; sensory language?

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

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Which term describes placing contradictory or often dissimilar things next to one another to provoke comparison?

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

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What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denotes one object or idea in place of another?

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

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Identify the term for the combination of contrasting words.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

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