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AP Lang Rhetorical Terms Quiz 4

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Oval Office issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Chiasmus

c)

Polysyndeton

d)

Malapropism

2.

Definition: a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part. "boots on the ground" for soldiers being deployed in an area

a)

Syndecdoche

b)

Paradox

c)

Zeugma

d)

Paradox

3.

the revival of Greek and Roman classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and US.

a)

Neoclassicism

b)

Romanticism

c)

Realism

d)

Postmodernism

4.

a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order; "Fair is foul and foul is fair"-Shakespeare

a)

Chiasmus

b)

Zeugma

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Paradox

5.

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one; The storm sank my boat and my dreams.

a)

Zeugma

b)

Polysyndeton

c)

Chiasmus

d)

Metonymy

6.

“In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation.” –William F. Buckley

a)

Polysyndeton

b)

Asyndeton

c)

Chiasmus

d)

Synecdoche

7.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."- George Orwell

a)

Paradox

b)

Pun

c)

Malapropism

d)

Synecdoche

8.

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."- George Carlin

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Malapropism

d)

Syndecdoche

9.

Ex: A rolling stone gathers no moths. (moss)

Ex: I remember because I have photogenic memory. (photographic)

a)

Malapropism

b)

Metonymy

c)

Paradox

d)

Zeugma

10.

"The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fiber of hair." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

a)

Asyndeton

b)

Polysyndeton

c)

Zeugma

d)

Chiasmus