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5.3 - Vocabulary Review

Authored by R. Claitt

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

5.3 - Vocabulary Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the rhetorical device that involves the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences?

Asyndeton

Antithesis

Chiasmus

Metonymy

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is characterized by the omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses?

Irony

Synecdoche

Asyndeton

Zeugma

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases?

Chiasmus

Rhetorical question

Metonymy

Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device uses words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning?

Metonymy

Irony

Zeugma

Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the rhetorical device that involves using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is associated?

Metonymy

Chiasmus

Antithesis

Rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is a statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer?

Synecdoche

Rhetorical question

Asyndeton

Irony

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole?

Zeugma

Metonymy

Synecdoche

Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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