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WorksheetsRhetorical Devices
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
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1.
The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A. Alliteration
b)
B. Metaphor
c)
C. Rhetorical
d)
D. Allusion
2.
A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A.Simile
b)
B.Invective
c)
C. Alliteration
d)
D. Analogy
3.
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A. Understatement
b)
B. D. Simile
c)
C. Oxymoron
4.
A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is?
a)
A. Understatement/Meiosis
b)
B. Personification
c)
C.Paralellism
5.
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
a)
A. Paradox
b)
B. Juxtaposition
c)
E. Satire
6.
A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A. Paradox
b)
B.
B. Hyperbole
B. Hyperbole
c)
C. Satire
7.
Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?
a)
A. Alliteration
b)
B. Allusion
c)
C. Anaphora
8.
*Great Depression
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
*Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
*Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful
a)
A. anecdote
b)
B. Paradox
c)
C. Oxymoron
9.
A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A. Imagery
b)
B. Personification
c)
C. Rhetoric
d)
E. Rhetorical Question
10.
"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum
a)
A. Exemplum
b)
B. Hyperbole
c)
C. Anaphora
11.
“It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Cesar, by whom Pompey was destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to blame …. When once Alexander had given way to fears of super natural influence, his mind grew so disturbed and so easily alarmed…… But a diseased habit of body, caused by drugs which Olympias gave him, had ruined not only his health, but his understanding.”
a)
A. Anecdote
b)
B. Exemplum
c)
C. Parable
d)
D. Thesis
12.
The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
A. Metaphor
b)
B. Satire
c)
C. Anaphora
d)
D. Irony
13.
Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is which rhetorical device?
a)
A. Imagery
b)
B. Alliteration
c)
C. Rhetoric
d)
D. Apostrophe
14.
When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events.
a)
A. A. Imagery
b)
B. Alliteration
c)
C. Rhetoric
d)
D. E. Allusion
15.
Back in the ‘80s, teens loved to say “that’s debatable” about claims they didn’t agree with (such as “you should clean your room” and “you shouldn’t go to that movie”). This age-old, neon-colored, bangle-wearing, peg-legged wisdom holds true today.
What is this an example of?
What is this an example of?
a)
A. Anecdote
b)
B. Thesis
c)
C. Exeplum
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