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AP Lang Rhetorical Devices

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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AP Lang Rhetorical Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

antimetabole

epistrophe

anaphora

rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail."

epistrophe

parallelism

apposition

antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

“Mom, you know that I am a self-starter, a dedicated learner, and an A student. You can trust that I will not misuse my phone in class.”
This is an example of... 

ethos

logos

pathos

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

This picture is a visual example of which rhetorical device?

Metaphor

Oxymoron

Juxtaposition

Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

6.

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

7.

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

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