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WorksheetsRhetorical Devices Set 12
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
"A mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homo-phony, in a way that gives it new meaning" is the definition of...
a)
Metalepsis
b)
Mondegreen
c)
Double Entendre
d)
Epanalepsis
2.
When Romeo poisons himself at the end of the play and Juliet wakes to find him dead, many consider it to be the _________ of the play.
a)
Apotheosis
b)
Spoonerism
c)
Double Entendre
d)
Metalepsis
3.
"A direct word switch or word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once" is the definition of...
a)
Double Entendre
b)
Apotheosis
c)
Metalepsis
d)
Anagram
4.
"Ross E. Forp" is an example of a(n) _______ of "Professor."
a)
Anagram
b)
Polysyndeton
c)
Mondegreen
d)
Apotheosis
5.
"Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details" is the definition of...
a)
Polysyndeton
b)
Enumeratio
c)
Epanalepsis
d)
Antanaclasis
6.
"Steps on a crack"
"Crêpes on a sack"
These two phrases are an example of a(n) ______.
"Crêpes on a sack"
These two phrases are an example of a(n) ______.
a)
Epanalepsis
b)
Polysyndeton
c)
Spoonerism
d)
Mondegreen
7.
"The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax" is the definition of...
a)
Apotheosis
b)
Anagram
c)
Metalepsis
d)
Polysyndeton
8.
Charles Dickens' character Charley Bates being referred to as Master Bates is an example of a(n) _____.
a)
Metalepsis
b)
Enumeratio
c)
Anagram
d)
Double Entendre
9.
"A figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in either of two ways, having a double meaning" is the definition of...
a)
Double Entendre
b)
Antanaclasis
c)
Epanalepsis
d)
Spoonerism
10.
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
"Excuse me while I kiss the sky"
These two phrases are an example of a ______.
"Excuse me while I kiss the sky"
These two phrases are an example of a ______.
a)
Polysyndeton
b)
Mondegreen
c)
Enumeratio
d)
Epanalepsis
11.
"A rhetorical device in which a phrase or word is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the word changes in each case" is the definition of...
a)
Antanaclasis
b)
Double Entendre
c)
Spoonerism
d)
Anagram
12.
"Teddy Roosevelt was quite the conservationist, politician, author, explorer, soldier, and all-around bull-moose" is an example of a(n) _____.
a)
Spoonerism
b)
Enumeratio
c)
Antanaclasis
d)
Polysyndeton
13.
"A literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed" is the definition of...
a)
Epanalepsis
b)
Metalepsis
c)
Mondegreen
d)
Polysyndeton
14.
"He is noticeable for nothing in the world except for the markedness by which he is noticeable for nothing" is an example of a(n) _____ by Edgar Allen Poe.
a)
Metalepsis
b)
Antanaclasis
c)
Epanalepsis
d)
Mondegreen
15.
"A figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context" is the definition of...
a)
Mondegreen
b)
Metalepsis
c)
Double Entendre
d)
Apotheosis
16.
A man in his orchard saying, "I like this tree and this tree and this tree and this tree..." is an example of a(n) _____.
a)
Double Entendre
b)
Epanalepsis
c)
Spoonerism
d)
Polysyndeton
17.
"An error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonant, vowels, or morphemes are switched between two words in a phrase" is the definition of...
a)
Enumeratio
b)
Antanaclasis
c)
Spoonerism
d)
Epanalepsis
18.
"While we live, let us live" is an example of a(n) _____.
a)
Antanaclasis
b)
Apotheosis
c)
Enumeratio
d)
Mondegreen
19.
"A figure of speech in which the beginning of a clause or sentence is repeated at the end of that same clause or sentence, with words intervening" is the definition of...
a)
Enumeratio
b)
Apotheosis
c)
Epanalepsis
d)
Mondegreen
20.
"Out, out damned spot" from Macbeth is an example of a(n) _____.
a)
Spoonerism
b)
Metalepsis
c)
Double Entendre
d)
Polysyndeton
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