WorksheetsRhetorical Devices Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
From Romeo and Juliet: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes . . ."
Euphemism
Alliteration
Personification
Juxtaposition
When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.
Antithesis
Anaphora
Alliteration
Allusion
In William Butler Yeats' "Isle of Innisfree"-"I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Euphemism
Hyperbole
It seems to have been raining for 40 days and 40 nights.
Meiosis
Metaphor
Symbolism
Hyperbole
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet, the sun!" Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
Tautology
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile
During the night, the blanket crept up until it was snuggled under my chin and my feet were bare.
Personification
Meiosis
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Don't be a Scrooge! (reference to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
Alliteration
Tautology
Allusion
Imagery
Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight.
Imagery
Anaphora
Simile
Meiosis
The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees.
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Personification
Oxymoron
"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!" Romeo and Juliet
Tautology
Anaphora
Allusion
Oxymoron
"All changed, changed suddenly / A terrible beauty is born." "Easter 1916," William Butler Yeats
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
SImile
Symbolism
Mom, we will not run. We will not scream. We will not be late.
Personification
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Anaphora
Alliteration
Imagery
Metaphor
“Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” by Dylan Thomas
Personification
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
Hyperbole
A butler spends his days in a beautiful mansion dressed in a tuxedo, but returns home to a closet-sized apartment in a rundown part of town.
Symbolism
Allusion
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
She’s feeling under the weather today.
Oxymoron
Imagery
Euphemism
Simile
Jimmy was sent to a correctional facility.
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Tautology
Euphemism
Looks like we’ve got a bit of trouble on our hands, huh?
Tautology
Meiosis
Alliteration
Personification
This is horrible! What else could go wrong? We have terrible luck!
Meiosis
Oxymoron
Imagery
Anaphora
In my opinion, they’re the best—better than all the other ones.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Tautology
We are unified--one group, standing together!
Metaphor
Simile
Tautology
Euphemism
Jennifer does chores ____________ because she doesn't trust others to do them right.
himself
herself
themselves
ourselves
The choir practiced ____________ to the point of exhaustion.
himself
themselves
yourselves
itself
One must get ___________ insured if one intends to drive on city streets.
oneself
himself
herself
itself
You people need to hurry and get ____________ some water before the race.
themselves
myself
yourself
yourselves
