Rhetorical Devices Quiz

What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

What is the term for an implied comparison between two unlike things?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Understatement

To make a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Euphemism

Which rhetorical device gives human characteristics to non-living or inanimate objects?

• Allusion

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

What is a question asked not to receive an answer, but to make a point?

• Rhetorical Question

• Hypothetical Question

• Direct Question

• Open Question

What is the rhetorical device that places two contrasting ideas side by side to highlight their differences?

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Metonymy

• Oxymoron

Which rhetorical device references a famous person or event—often from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible?

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Allusion

• Irony

Which term describes a figure of speech that minimizes the significance of something?

• A) Exaggeration

• B) Hyperbole

• C) Understatement

• D) Litotes

What is the repetition of words at the end of a line?

• A) Epistrophe

• B) Simile

• C) Oxymoron

• D) Hyperbole

What is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences?

• A) Epistrophe

• B) Anaphora

• C) Juxtaposition

• D) Chiasmus