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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


It was a bit amusing that he only read the last page. Now he has a lot of misunderstandings.

a)

metaphor

b)

understatement

c)

polysyndeton

d)

anaphora

2.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


I'm surprised; Glasses didn't know the answer to the Trivia question.

a)

metaphor

b)

understatement

c)

metonymy

d)

apostrophe

3.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


There should be no trucks in the carpool lane, no suvs in the carpool lane, never any commercial vehicles in the carpool lane for your family should be safe in the carpool lane!

a)

understatement

b)

polysyndeton

c)

apostrope

d)

epiphora

4.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


Justice is never attainable for those who step on the already downtrodden. Justice is never attainable for those who ignore the loud suffering, anguished cries, of others.

a)

understatement

b)

epipohra

c)

anaphora

d)

aposiopesis

5.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


I love you because you are gentle. Your gentleness blooms from love.

a)

polysyndeton

b)

asyndeton

c)

metonymy

d)

chaismus

6.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


She stuck to sticky notes, since sticky notes stuck to her.

a)

allusion

b)

chaismus

c)

polysyndeton

d)

asyndeton

7.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


Over, over, the waves rolled around; the boat along with the waves; the lighthouse peering at it every rotation, intrigued--then, not intrigued enough to act.

a)

asyndeton

b)

hyperbole

c)

allusion

d)

aposiopesis

8.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


Stevie watched the Surgical Instruments funnel into the conference building, backs straight with the regal defiance of those who often faced death and lived to boast about it.

a)

metonymy

b)

aposiopesis

c)

allusion

d)

chiasmus

9.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


There is no joy on October the thirty first, as tragedy strikes. Terror you can hear--

a)

anaphora

b)

aposiopesis

c)

allusion

d)

apostrophe

10.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


All the iPads stared blankly at the teacher. They were ready to google "cognizant" when she stopped lecturing.

a)

hyperbole

b)

allusion

c)

asyndeton

d)

metonymy

11.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


Henrietta poured her secrets out as a drink offering before the man she thought would be her husband. He asked for the return of his grandmother's wedding band the next week.

a)

hyperbole

b)

polysyndeton

c)

chaismus

d)

allusion

12.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


The silence roars on! The silence---


Can you hear it?

a)

metaphor

b)

aposiopesis

c)

apostrophe

d)

metonymy

13.

Identify the Rhetorical Device:


Silence, you allude the proud and the arrogant. I plead to you to invade their hearts and minds and to quiet their souls and strike enough fear to humble them.

a)

polysyndeton

b)

chaismus

c)

apostrophe

d)

asyndeton

14.

T-swizzle, I wish I could see you in concert as a VIP member, so that you could hear my music. We would be the best duet, better than you and Ed Sheeran.

a)

epiphora

b)

anaphora

c)

aposiopesis

d)

apostrophe