WorksheetsRhetorical Devices part 2
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
"contrary-to-expectation" in Greek; when the reader or audience expects one thing, but the author or speaker actually continues by saying something different that would not typically/logically flow. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." —Groucho Marx
a)
polyptoton
b)
paraprosdokian
c)
malapropism
d)
onomatopoeia
2.
"sitting together" in Greek; two contiguous vowels in a word are blended (Aen. 6.412 dēturbat laxatque forōs; simul accipit alve͡ō)
a)
synchisis
b)
synizesis
c)
tmesis
d)
smilie
3.
"smoothness" or "simplicity" in Greek; understatement, often through negatives (e.g. "not so good" meaning "really bad")
a)
smilie
b)
litotes
c)
tmesis
d)
pleonasm
4.
a question that anticipates no real answer but is meant to direct the mind of the audience to a specific conclusion/judgement
a)
rhetorical question
b)
pleonasm
c)
tricolon
d)
litotes
5.
an epithet (adjective or adjectival phrase) that has been transferred from its proper placement
a)
transferred epithet
b)
synecdoche
c)
paraprosdokian
d)
prolepsis
6.
misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound: "We have just ended our physical year" instead of "We have just ended our fiscal year."
a)
malapropism
b)
pleonasm
c)
metanoia
d)
metaphor
7.
"yoke" in Greek; the joining of two words by a modifying or governing word which either works only for one or has a different meaning with each ("They saw lots of thunder and lightning." & "You are free to execute your laws and your citizens as you see fit."). Compare to apo koinou, where both uses typically work.
a)
metonymy
b)
zeugma
c)
metanoia
d)
tmesis
8.
"change of name" in Greek; the substitution of a word for another which it suggests (Vulcan for fire)--compare to synecdoche
a)
metanoia
b)
metonymy
c)
metaphor
d)
zeugma
9.
"taking beforehand" in Greek; foreshadowing
a)
tmesis
b)
synizesis
c)
prolepsis
d)
pleonasm
10.
"much bound together" in Greek; an overabundance of conjunctions
a)
synizesis
b)
polysyndeton
c)
oxymoron
d)
polyptoton
11.
"making up of words" in Greek; the use of words whose sound suggests their sense: e.g. "murmur" meaning "rumble" or "low noise"
a)
oxymoron
b)
polyptoton
c)
metanoia
d)
onomatopoeia
12.
"emotional lie" according to Greek and Latin roots; the attribution of human emotion to inanimate objects--compare to personification, pathetic fallacy always involves personification, but personification does not have to have an emotional element →
tricolon
tricolon
a)
true
b)
false- pathetic fallacy
c)
false- pleonasm
d)
false-zeugma
13.
"receiving together" in Greek; the use of a part for the whole or reverse (sword for a warrior, day for dawn, point for sword, peak for mountain) →
synecdoche
synecdoche
a)
true
b)
false- tmesis
c)
false- simile
d)
false- prolepsis
14.
"pouring/mixing together" in Greek; interlocking word order (Aen. 1.4 ...SAEVAE memorem IUNONIS ob iram) →
synizesis
synizesis
a)
true
b)
false- tricolon
c)
false- tmesis
d)
false- synizesis
15.
"making of fullness" in Greek; intentionally using more words than really necessary to add rhetorical emphasis →
litotes
litotes
a)
true
b)
false- paraprosdokian
c)
false- oxymoron
d)
false- pleonasm
16.
"likeness" according to Latin root; an explicit comparison between two different things (using like or as, or in Latin ut, sicut, velut, similis, etc.) →
litotes
litotes
a)
true
b)
false- malapropism
c)
false- simile
d)
false- pathetic fallacy
17.
"change in thought" in Greek; where one corrects or adjusts a statement just made: "I don't like you. No, I ABHOR your very existence." →
metanoia
metanoia
a)
true
b)
false- onomatopoeia
c)
false- metonymy
d)
false- metaphor
18.
"carried over" in Greek; an implicit comparison achieved by calling one thing or person another: "You are my sunshine" →
metaphor
metaphor
a)
true
b)
false- malapropism
c)
false- litotes
d)
false- simile
19.
"cutting" in Greek; the separation into two parts of a word usually written as one ("circum virum dant" for "virum circumdant") →
prolepsis
prolepsis
a)
true
b)
false- tmesis
c)
false- paraprosdokian
d)
false- zeugma
20.
"three legs/phrases" in Greek; three parallel words or phrases in a rhetorical series, often found in sequentially increasing length (then called "tricolon crescens") →
tricolon
tricolon
a)
true
b)
false- synizesis
c)
false- rhetorical question
d)
false- polyptoton
21.
"sharp-dull" in Greek; when opposite terms are strikingly used to describe the same thing (e.g. "he is stupid smart") →
oxymoron
oxymoron
a)
true
b)
false-
c)
false-
d)
false-
22.
"in many cases" in Greek; the repetition of a word in different grammatical forms for rhetorical effect →
oxymoron
oxymoron
a)
true
b)
false
23.
"additional lettering" in Latin; the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words
a)
alliteration
b)
aposiopesis
c)
hyperbole
d)
pleonasm
24.
"playing at" in Latin; when the author says something reminiscent of his/her literary or historical model in order to hint at or remind the reader of the literature or historical event, which underlies the text (e.g. "arma virumque cano" alludes to the warlike Iliad and the Odyssey which is all about the MAN Odysseus).
a)
chiasmus
b)
anadiplosis
c)
allusion
d)
ecphrasis
25.
repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next
a)
lilotes
b)
asyndeton
c)
alliteration
d)
anadiplosis
26.
"turning backwards" in Greek; the inversion of the normal order of words
a)
ecphrasis
b)
aposiopesis
c)
anastrophe
d)
epithet
27.
"bringing back" in Greek; the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
a)
anecodote
b)
anaphora
c)
allusion
d)
forshadow
28.
a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners muse
a)
anecodote
b)
alliteration
c)
asyndeton
d)
hiatus
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