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Rhetorical Devices & Figurative Language

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting.. 1,845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging.. 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe."

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

logos

d)

pathos and ethos

2.

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

a)

rhetorical question

b)

logos

c)

metaphor

d)

anaphora

3.

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!

a)

logos

b)

repetition

c)

repetition

d)

metaphor

4.
a)

alliteration

b)

anaphora

c)

repetition

d)

parallelism

5.

What is the claim in this picture?

a)

Spare parts for humans

b)

Not as original as those for cars.

c)

BMW

d)

Don't drink and drive.

6.

The NEW Subway wrap is the single greatest thing in the world! Get one today!

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

7.

*Great Depression

*Jumbo shrimp

*Cruel to be Kind

*Pain for pleasure

*Clearly confused

*Act naturally

*Painfully beautiful

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Analogy

8.
A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 
a)
A. Imagery 
b)
B. Personification 
c)
C. Rhetoric 
d)
E. Rhetorical Question 
9.

"To think on death it is a misery,

To think on life it is a vanity;

to think on the world verily it is,

to think that here man hath no perfect bliss." - Peachum

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Rhetorical Question

c)

Anaphora

d)

Oxymoron

10.

The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Parallelism

c)

Anaphora

d)

Irony

11.

Complete this sentence with parallelism:

Last summer I learned to play tennis, to swim, and __________.

a)

riding a horse

b)

to ride a hourse

c)

ride a hourse

d)

rides a horse

12.

Complete this sentence with parallelism: I have always enjoyed reading the book more than _____________________.

a)

watches the movie.

b)

to watch the movie.

c)

watching the movie.

d)

I watched the movie version.

13.
'Pop! The cork flew from the champagne bottle.'  The word 'pop' is an example of:
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
14.
This term means to use a strong exaggeration:
a)
personification
b)
idiom
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
hyperbole
15.
'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
16.
Silly Sally swam so smoothly' is an example of:
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
idiom
17.
The little road says, Go,
The little house says, Stay!
This is an example of:
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
18.
'She sang of his love forever.'  is an example of:
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole