Rhetoric Devices
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11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the rhetoric device that involves repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?
Alliteration
Anaphora
Simile
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which rhetoric device involves using exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
Irony
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the name of the rhetoric device that refers to the use of words that imitate the sound they describe?
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.6.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which rhetoric device involves a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Irony
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.6.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Hyperbole is...
the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.
a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character.
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
CCSS.L.8.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
" . . . and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid."
ethos
pathos
logos
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the primary purpose of using rhetorical questions in a speech?
To confuse the audience
To provide the audience with specific answers
To engage the audience and provoke thought
To offer a break in the delivery of the speech
Tags
DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept
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