Rhetorical Devices Quiz

Match the following rhetorical devices to their definitions

• Repeating the END of sentences

• Allusion

• A reference to a person, event, or book

• Analogy

• Repeating the BEGINNING of sentences

• Antithesis

• A comparison with explanation

• Epistrophe

• Putting 2 contrasting ideas together

• Anaphora

Match the following rhetorical devices to their definitions

• Three parallel elements for emphasis

• Parallelism

• Questions for effect - not to answer

• Tripling

• Repeating grammar or patterns for effect

• Metaphor

• Comparing 2 unlike things (no like/as)

• Rhetorical Questions

What rhetorical device is used?

• "Just as a compass can point you true north, so too can the principles of freedom guide our actions." - Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation on the Challenger

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• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Analogy

• Epistrophe

What rhetorical device is used?

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

• Antithesis

• Tripling

• Metaphor

• Allusion

What rhetorical device is used?

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets..." - Winston Churchill, "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"

• Epistrophe

• Parallelism

• Personification

• Anaphora

What rhetorical device is used?

"I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!" - Martin Luther King Jr., "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

What rhetorical device is used?

• "Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Anaphora

What rhetorical device is used?

• "That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

• Tripling

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical Question

What rhetorical device is used?

• "The sun smiled down on the happy couple as they exchanged vows."

• Antithesis

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Allusion

What rhetorical device is used?

• "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"

• Analogy

• Rhetorical Question

• Parallelism

• Allusion