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WorksheetsAP Lang Rhetorical Terms Quiz 4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Oval Office issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack.
Metonymy
Chiasmus
Polysyndeton
Malapropism
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
Syndecdoche
Paradox
Zeugma
Paradox
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.
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Realism
Postmodernism
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
Chiasmus
Zeugma
Synecdoche
Paradox
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.
Zeugma
Polysyndeton
Chiasmus
Metonymy
“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
Polysyndeton
Asyndeton
Chiasmus
Synecdoche
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."- George Orwell
Paradox
Pun
Malapropism
Synecdoche
"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."- George Carlin
Pun
Paradox
Malapropism
Syndecdoche
Ex: A rolling stone gathers no moths. (moss)
Ex: I remember because I have photogenic memory. (photographic)
Malapropism
Metonymy
Paradox
Zeugma
"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
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Zeugma
Chiasmus
