Exploring Rhetorical Devices in Speeches

Which rhetorical device is defined as the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the main purpose of using a rhetorical question in a speech?

• To provide factual information

• To provoke thought without expecting an answer

• To summarize the main idea

• To introduce a new topic

Which rhetorical device is used in the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech: "Let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York..."?

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Irony

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for a direct comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which device is being used in the phrase "government of the people, by the people, for the people" from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

• Alliteration

• Parallelism

• Metonymy

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the purpose of using alliteration in a speech?

• To create a musical effect and make phrases memorable

• To compare two things directly

• To exaggerate for emphasis

• To provide factual evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the main function of using antithesis in a speech?

• To create contrast between two ideas

• To repeat the same word at the end of clauses

• To exaggerate for effect

• To provide background information

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which device is used when a non-human object is given human characteristics?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is the purpose of using hyperbole in a text?

• To understate a situation

• To exaggerate for emphasis or effect

• To provide a direct comparison

• To create a rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify the rhetorical device in the following quote from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

• Antithesis

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5