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WorksheetsRhetorical Device Examples
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.
rhetorical question
logos
metaphor
anaphora
And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.
parallelism
repetition
antithesis
alliteration
What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another. - RFK
repetition
allusion
antithesis
metaphor
"To think on death it is a misery,
To think on life it is a vanity;
to think on the world verily it is,
to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum
alliteration
hyperbole
anaphora
simile
When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, “Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” he’s using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you?
rhetorical question
simile
metaphor
alliteration
"Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends.”
simile
anaphora
personification
repetition
What is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing called?
argument
claim
rhetoric
thesis
“The quiz was a breeze” is an example of what rhetorical device?
metaphor
simile
alliteration
rhetorical question
The sentence structure in the sentence,“Of the people, by the people, for the people,” is an example of which rhetorical device?
parallelism
personification
repetition
oxymoron
"Life is but a walking shadow..." This is an example of a...
simile
metaphor
anecdote
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight n France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans."
This is an example of...
a simile
personification
anaphora
antithesis
Every man, every woman, every child, should be loved.
simile
metaphor
andecdote
tricolon
She dances like a chicken on hot coals.
anaphora
simile
antithesis
hot dogs
“I came, I saw, I conquered.” ...Julius Caesar
parallelism
alliteration
simile
allusion
“I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
--Langston Hughes
oxymoron
metaphor
repetition
allusion
