Rhetorical

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• analogy

• allusion

Writing, usually nonfiction, that influences the reader.

• ethos

• persuasion

• tone

• repetition

means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.

• anthimeria

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• antithesis

means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antimetabole

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• apposition

• epistrophe

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

• anthimeria

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

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

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail."

• epistrophe

• parallelism

• apposition

• antimetabole

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

• parallelism

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antithesis