Rhetoric Devices

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

Which rhetoric device involves using exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

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

Which rhetoric device involves a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Irony

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.

" . . . 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

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

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept

What rhetoric device is used when contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Personification

• Alliteration

Which rhetoric device involves attributing human characteristics or qualities to non-human entities?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia
  

• Oxymoron

What is the rhetoric device that involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Alliteration

• Anaphora