Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

10th - 12th Grade

17 Qs

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Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th - 12th Grade

Practice Problem

Easy

CCSS
L.4.5, L.4.5A, RL.2.4

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Standards-aligned

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
"Strong in the force, you are." Yoda, Star Wars

Hyperbole
Anastrophe
Antithesis
Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

Epistrophe
Hyperbole
Anastrophe
Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of what kind of literary device?
“The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek–now that, too, was gone….”

Hyperbole
Epistrophe
Apostrophe
Anastrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!

Anaphora
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
How many people die from lung cancer each year? About 157,423 people die from lung cancer each year.

Rhetorical question
Oxymoron
Hypophora
Irony

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.

Personification 
Juxtaposition
Irony
Paradox

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