Rhetorical Devices: List 2

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." This sentence is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Antithesis

• Personification

"Love's fire heats water, water cools not love." This sentence is an example of:

• Anaphora

• Chiasmus

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

"She came, she saw, she conquered." This sentence is an example of:

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." This sentence is an example of:

• Ellipsis

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Paradox

"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." This sentence is an example of:

• Anadiplosis

• Epanalepsis

• Parallelism

• Chiasmus

"Why bother?" This sentence is an example of:

• Rhetorical question

• Rhetorical fragment

• Ellipsis

• Asyndeton

"A dream deferred." This sentence is an example of:

• Rhetorical fragment

• Ellipsis

• Anaphora

• Paradox

"What is the meaning of life? The meaning of life is to live it." This sentence is an example of:

• Hypophora

• Rhetorical question

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

"A fire station burns down." This is an example of:

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Cosmic irony

"A police officer gets arrested for theft." This is an example of:

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Cosmic irony