Rhetorical Devices Used in Speeches

Rhetorical Devices Used in Speeches

11th Grade

18 Qs

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Rhetorical Devices Used in Speeches

Rhetorical Devices Used in Speeches

Assessment

Quiz

English

11th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
L.4.5, RI.9-10.4, RL.2.4

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18 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

___________________ means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.

anthimeria

asyndeton

antimetabole

antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

anaphora

epistrophe

rhetorical question

parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

apposition

antimetabole

parallelism

antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

________________ means: a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it

parallelism

anaphora

apposition

rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

anthimeria

parallelism

asyndeton

antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

______________ means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect

asyndeton

anaphora

epistrophe

antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

_________________ means: A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern

asyndeton

rhetorical question

parallelism

antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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