Rhetorical Devices AP Language
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a reference to an object or person by naming only a part of the object or person
metonymy
synecdoche
hyperbole
litote
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The pen danced across the author's page
epistrophe
asyndeton
metaphor
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?
allusion
rhetorical question
antithesis
anthimeria
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
deliberately de-emphasizing something in order to downplay its importance
litote
hyperbole
personification
epistrophe
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people"
epistrophe
chiasmus
anadiplosis
asyndeton
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
antithesis
Chiasmus
zeguma
parenthesis
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
spread the happy
periphrasis
parenthesis
anthimeria
asyndeton
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