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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

___________________ means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.

a)

anthimeria

b)

asyndeton

c)

antimetabole

d)

antithesis

2.

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

a)

anaphora

b)

epistrophe

c)

rhetorical question

d)

parallelism

3.

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

a)

apposition

b)

antimetabole

c)

parallelism

d)

antithesis

4.

________________ means: a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it

a)

parallelism

b)

anaphora

c)

apposition

d)

rhetorical question

5.

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

a)

anthimeria

b)

parallelism

c)

asyndeton

d)

antimetabole

6.

______________ means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect

a)

asyndeton

b)

anaphora

c)

epistrophe

d)

antimetabole

7.

_________________ means: A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern

a)

asyndeton

b)

rhetorical question

c)

parallelism

d)

antimetabole

8.

_____________ means: repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

a)

anaphora

b)

epistrophe

c)

anthimeria

d)

apposition

9.

_________________ means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

a)

anaphora

b)

epistrophe

c)

antithesis

d)

parallelism

10.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

a)

antithesis

b)

parallelism

c)

apposition

d)

epistrophe

11.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

a)

asyndeton

b)

antimetabole

c)

apposition

d)

epistrophe

12.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

a)

anthimeria

b)

apposition

c)

asyndeton

d)

antimetabole

13.

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

a)

antimetabole

b)

epistrophe

c)

anaphora

d)

rhetorical question

14.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail."

a)

epistrophe

b)

parallelism

c)

apposition

d)

antimetabole

15.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens..."

a)

parallelism

b)

antithesis

c)

apposition

d)

asyndeton

16.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

a)

parallelism

b)

apposition

c)

asyndeton

d)

antithesis

17.

What rhetorical device is used in the following advertisement: "Come TV with us"

a)

anaphora

b)

anthimeria

c)

epistrophe

d)

apposition

18.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

a)

parallelism

b)

rhetorical question

c)

anthimeria

d)

antithesis