
Rhetorical Devices Quiz
Authored by ROBERT HAMILTON
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11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Saying that a company was “downsizing” instead of “firing” workers.
enumeration
epistrophe
exigence
euphemism
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“To be or not to be. That is the question.” This repetitive structure uses…
hypophora
diacope
anaphora
epistrophe
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ This listing Martin Luther King, Jr. uses in this passage is a form of…
enumeration
euphemism
epistrophe
exigence
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” Abraham Lincoln uses with these two phrases to connect the men who died toward their legacy.
diacope
enumeration
juxtaposition
hypophora
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” King, Jr. says, “There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be satisfied?’ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” He asks a question, then answers it. This is known as…
diacope
hypophora
anaphora
epistrophe
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” King, Jr. states, “This ‘wait’ has almost always meant ‘never.’ It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration.” Which of the following is a strategy he uses when he compares the wait to a “tranquilizing thalidomide?”
Understatement
Onomatopoeia
Polysyndeton
Analogy
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.6.5B
CCSS.L.8.5B
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Gloria Steinem discussed an interview with Mrs. Nixon to illustrate how few role models exist for women. This story is an example of a(n)...
antithesis
anecdote
oxymoron
symbolism
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
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