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Rhetorical Strategies quote review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This quote is and example of . . .

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Parallelism

d)

Repetition

2.

The following is an example of

a)

Antithesis

b)

Repetition

c)

Parallelism

d)

Rhetorical Question

3.

This quote is and example of . . .

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Parallelism

d)

Repetition

4.

This quote is and example of . . .

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Parallelism

d)

Repetition

5.

This quote is and example of . . .

“Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild marshes, and made his home in a hell not hell on earth. He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by God, punished forever for the crime of Abel's death. The Almighty drove those demons out, and their exile was bitter…” (Lines 17-24

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Parallelism

d)

Repetition

6.

The following is an example of what Rhetorical Device?


Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?

a)

Antithesis

b)

Rhetorical Question

c)

Parallelsim

d)

Allusion

7.

The following is an example of what Rhetorical Device?




a)

Antithesis

b)

Rhetorical Question

c)

Parallelsim

d)

Allusion

8.

The following is an example of what Rhetorical Device?


Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms? Or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?” - Barack Obama



a)

Antithesis

b)

Rhetorical Question

c)

Parallelsim

d)

Allusion

9.

The following is an example of what Rhetorical device?


"And he sat, and he sat, and he sat, and he sat. And he sat all that day, and he kept the egg warm."

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Repetition

d)

Parallelism

10.

The following is an example of what Rhetorical device?


"Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do. And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side." - George W. Bush

a)

Allusion

b)

Antithesis

c)

Repetition

d)

Parallelism