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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The term that means understatement that negates is
a)
Anachronism
b)
Litotes
c)
Understatement
d)
Asyndeton
2.
The term that means to purposely leave out conjunctions is
a)
Asyndeton
b)
Polysyndeton
c)
Anachronism
d)
Euphemism
3.
The term that means a repetition of vowel sounds is
a)
Allusion
b)
Alliteration
c)
Assonance
d)
Anadiplosis
4.
The term that means a reference to a well known person, place or thing is
a)
Parallelism
b)
Allusion
c)
Diction
d)
Anachronism
5.
The following is an example of what term: Piggy the Panda paid for a purple popsicle.
a)
Irony
b)
Anadiplosis
c)
Alliteration
d)
Syntax
6.
The following is an example of what term:  The man went to the store and bought apples and bananas and legos and bread and chapstick.
a)
Connotation
b)
Oxymoron
c)
Asyndeton
d)
Polysyndeton
7.
Martin Luther King Junior's use of the phrase "I have a dream" is an example of what strategy?
a)
Anaphora
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Litotes
d)
Asyndeton
8.
Logos means....
a)
appealing to emotion
b)
appealing to logic
c)
appealing to credibility
d)
appealing to an author
9.
Which one is NOT part of the rhetorical triangle
a)
audience
b)
subject
c)
speaker
d)
author
10.
The reason an author writes a text is called....
a)
the audience
b)
the author's message
c)
the author's purpose
d)
the canon 
11.
Repeating a phrase at the beginning of a clause is called.....
a)
repetition
b)
anaphora
c)
personification
d)
antithesis
12.
Pathos means
a)
appealing to logic
b)
appealing to emotion
c)
appealing to credibility
d)
appealing to everyone
13.
Epistrophe
a)
Last words of a phrase repeated at the end of following phrases.
b)
Similarity of structure of words in successive phrases.
14.
What rhetorical device is being used?
"We will pass the STAAR test! We will achieve commended! And we will celebrate by eating donuts!"
a)
anecdote
b)
alliteration
c)
paradox
d)
anaphora
15.
It was a cold day, a wicked day, a day of biting winds and bitter frost.
a)
Amplification
b)
Parenthesis
c)
Zeugma
d)
Epithet
16.
In old age we laugh at our past, sigh for our past, cry out for our past.
a)
epistrophe
b)
sympoce
c)
anaphora
d)
understatement
17.
We played the game of soccer in the winter time. We played the trumpets of doom in the winter time. We played the sport of basketball in the winter time.
a)
epistrophe
b)
symploce
c)
anaphora
d)
aporia
18.
We look in toward the Milky Way, in toward the system of Sol, in toward the planet Earth, in toward the nation of China, and, finally, in toward a lonely hut on a lonely hill
a)
Anaphora
b)
Epistrophe
c)
Symploce
d)
Metaphor
19.
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 
20.
This memorable quote: "The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
a)
Is an example of Ethos
b)
Is an example of Logos
c)
Is an example of Pathos
21.
It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain
a)
Understatement
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Litotes
d)
Antithesis
22.
Shakespeare was not unfamiliar with poetry.
a)
Understatement
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Litotes
d)
Antithesis
23.
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom.
a)
Understatement
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Litotes
d)
Antithesis
24.
I speak not from ignorance, but from experience.
a)
Understatement
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Litotes
d)
Antithesis
25.
Words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of a repetition of grammatical structure. 
a)
repetition
b)
antithesis
c)
rhyme scheme