WorksheetsRhetorical Devices
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins
___________________ 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.
anthimeria
asyndeton
antimetabole
antithesis
_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.
anaphora
epistrophe
rhetorical question
parallelism
__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
apposition
antimetabole
parallelism
antithesis
________________ means: a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it
parallelism
anaphora
apposition
rhetorical question
________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern
anthimeria
parallelism
asyndeton
antimetabole
______________ means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect
asyndeton
anaphora
epistrophe
antimetabole
_________________ means: A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern
asyndeton
rhetorical question
parallelism
antimetabole
_____________ means: repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses
anaphora
epistrophe
anthimeria
apposition
_________________ means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases
anaphora
epistrophe
antithesis
parallelism
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..."
antithesis
parallelism
apposition
epistrophe
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."
asyndeton
antimetabole
apposition
epistrophe
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"
anthimeria
apposition
asyndeton
antimetabole
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..."
antimetabole
epistrophe
anaphora
rhetorical question
What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:
"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail."
epistrophe
parallelism
apposition
antimetabole
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..."
parallelism
antithesis
apposition
asyndeton
What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
parallelism
apposition
asyndeton
antithesis
What rhetorical device is used in the following advertisement: "Come TV with us"
anaphora
anthimeria
epistrophe
apposition
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?"
parallelism
rhetorical question
anthimeria
antithesis
