WorksheetsRhetorical Devices
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
"You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart" is an example of:
Metaphor
Propaganda
Antithesis
Allusion
"Are you working hard or hardly working?" is an example of:
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Extended Metaphor
Epistrophe
"What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse an pretty soon they were too complicated."
Chiasmus
Hypophora
Parallelism
Epistrophe
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune – without the words,
And never stops at all," - Emily Dickinson
Anaphora
Simile
Allusion
Extended Metaphor
“My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Hypophora
Allusion
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [. . .]
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,”
Extended Metaphor
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Ethos
"The time for healing of the wounds has come.
The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come." - Nelson Mandela
Antithesis
Parallelism
Epistrophe
Anaphora
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink; whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." - Socrates
Chiasmus
Hyperbole
Imagery
Allusion
"better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n" John Milton
Antithesis
Anaphora
Metaphor
Simile
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." - Kurt Vonnegut
Anaphora
Imagery
Hypophora
Antithesis
