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Rhetorical Devices Quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

From Romeo and Juliet: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes . . ."

a)

Euphemism

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Juxtaposition

2.

When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.

a)

Antithesis

b)

Anaphora

c)

Alliteration

d)

Allusion

3.

In William Butler Yeats' "Isle of Innisfree"-"I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Allusion

c)

Euphemism

d)

Hyperbole

4.

It seems to have been raining for 40 days and 40 nights.

a)

Meiosis

b)

Metaphor

c)

Symbolism

d)

Hyperbole

5.

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet, the sun!" Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

a)

Tautology

b)

Metaphor

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Simile

6.

During the night, the blanket crept up until it was snuggled under my chin and my feet were bare.

a)

Personification

b)

Meiosis

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Metaphor

7.

Don't be a Scrooge! (reference to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

a)

Alliteration

b)

Tautology

c)

Allusion

d)

Imagery

8.

Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight.

a)

Imagery

b)

Anaphora

c)

Simile

d)

Meiosis

9.

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees.

a)

Imagery

b)

Juxtaposition

c)

Personification

d)

Oxymoron

10.

"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!" Romeo and Juliet

a)

Tautology

b)

Anaphora

c)

Allusion

d)

Oxymoron

11.

"All changed, changed suddenly / A terrible beauty is born." "Easter 1916," William Butler Yeats

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Hyperbole

c)

SImile

d)

Symbolism

12.

Mom, we will not run. We will not scream. We will not be late.

a)

Personification

b)

Anaphora

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Onomatopoeia

13.

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

a)

Anaphora

b)

Alliteration

c)

Imagery

d)

Metaphor

14.

“Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” by Dylan Thomas

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Hyperbole

15.

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.

a)

Symbolism

b)

Allusion

c)

Metaphor

d)

Juxtaposition

16.

She’s feeling under the weather today.

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Imagery

c)

Euphemism

d)

Simile

17.

Jimmy was sent to a correctional facility.

a)

Imagery

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Tautology

d)

Euphemism

18.

Looks like we’ve got a bit of trouble on our hands, huh?

a)

Tautology

b)

Meiosis

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

19.

This is horrible! What else could go wrong? We have terrible luck!

a)

Meiosis

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Imagery

d)

Anaphora

20.

In my opinion, they’re the best—better than all the other ones.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Tautology

21.

We are unified--one group, standing together!

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Tautology

d)

Euphemism

22.

Jennifer does chores ____________ because she doesn't trust others to do them right.

a)

himself

b)

herself

c)

themselves

d)

ourselves

23.

The choir practiced ____________ to the point of exhaustion.

a)

himself

b)

themselves

c)

yourselves

d)

itself

24.

One must get ___________ insured if one intends to drive on city streets.

a)

oneself

b)

himself

c)

herself

d)

itself

25.

You people need to hurry and get ____________ some water before the race.

a)

themselves

b)

myself

c)

yourself

d)

yourselves