Rhetorical Devices AP Language

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• metonymy

• alliteration

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!

• chiasmus

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• zeguma

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more

• polysyndeton

• antithesis

• zeguma

• anadiplosis

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,/ Shrunk to this little measure?

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• antithimeria

What rhetorical device is used in: "We are the people in a quandary about the present. We are the people in search of our future. We are the people in search of a national community. We are the people."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

What is the following an example of?

“To err is human; to forgive divine.”

• chiasmus

• zeugma

• epistrophe

• antithesis

What rhetorical device is used in: "We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together"

• simile

• parallelism

• hyperbole

• rhetorical question

What is a rhetorical question?

• A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.

• A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.

• A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part.

• A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared, does not use like or as.

A question that is asked, but the audience isn't intended to answer it is called

• rhetorical question

• pathos

• ethos

• logos

A figure of speech where the speaker asks a question or several questions and then answers them.

• Hypophora

• Chiasmus

• Rhetorical Question

• Litotes