Free Printable AP Test Review - Rhetorical Devices

1.

My tongue is a dolphin passed out in an elevator.—Jeffrey McDaniel, “Dear America”

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

irony

2.

Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight. —Dr. Seuss

a)

alliteration

b)

anaphora

c)

antithesis

d)

anastrophe

3.

The woods are getting ready to sleep -- they are not yet asleep but they are disrobing and are having all sorts of little bed-time conferences and whispers and good-nights — L.M. Montgomery, “The Green Gables Letters”

a)

personification

b)

imagery

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

4.

Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table—T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

a)

synaesthesia

b)

imagery

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

5.

The building was pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings.—John Steinbeck

a)

paradox

b)

oxymoron

c)

irony

d)

trope

6.

New, and a bit alarming Who'd have ever thought that this could be? True, that he's no Prince Charming But there's something in him that I simply didn't see— “Something There” Beauty and the Beast

a)

litotes

b)

irony

c)

sarcasm

d)

paradox

7.

I had to wait in the station for ten days–an eternity.—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

a)

litotes

b)

paradox

c)

hyperbole

d)

hypotaxis

8.

“Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, And not a drop to drink”

a)

irony

b)

paradox

9.

“The quiz was a breeze” is an example of what rhetorical device?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Understatement

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Rhetorical Question

10.

If your boss says, “I’m letting you go,” instead of “You’re fired!” She/he is using a...

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Rhetorical Question

d)

Euphemism

11.

Jumbo shrimp is an example of which rhetorical device?

a)

Pathos

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Personification

d)

Allusion

12.

The sentence "I'll love you 'til the ocean is folded and hung up to dry and the seven stars go squawking like geese about the sky,” is an example of which rhetorical device (not simile or metaphor)?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Anaphora

c)

Repetition

d)

Rhetorical Appeal

13.

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?

a)

A. Understatement

b)

B. D. Simile

c)

C. Oxymoron

14.

A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is?

a)

A. Understatement/Meiosis

b)

B. Personification

c)

C.Paralellism

15.

A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices?

a)

A. Paradox

b)

B.
B. Hyperbole

c)

C. Satire

16.

Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is which rhetorical device?

a)

A. Imagery

b)

B. Alliteration

c)

C. Rhetoric

d)

D. Apostrophe

17.

"Man proposes, God disposes."

a)

meiosis

b)

antithesis

c)

juxtaposition

d)

simile

18.

"To err is human; to forgive divine."

a)

antithesis

b)

litotes

c)

synecdoche

d)

metonymy

19.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

a)

oxymoron

b)

metaphor

c)

antithesis

d)

synecdoche

20.

“Oh, Starbucks, how I love you! Your medium dark roast allowed me to survive that meeting!”

a)

personification

b)

apostrophe

c)

antithesis

d)

euphemism

21.

He's gone to a better place

a)

euphemism

b)

hyperbole

c)

metonymy

d)

synecdoche

22.

Good things come to those who wait

a)

idiom

b)

euphemism

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

23.

Give someone the cold shoulder

a)

idiom

b)

personification

c)

metonymy

d)

analogy

24.

They aren't unhappy with the presentation

a)

personification

b)

litotes

c)

apostrophe

d)

analogy

25.

The period of time where slavery was rife in America is often referred to as ‘our peculiar institution.’

a)

litotes

b)

meiosis

c)

paradox

d)

oxymoron

26.

Referring to the government of the US as "Washington"

a)

metonymy

b)

litotes

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

27.

Would you like a piece of my Danish?

a)

meiosis

b)

synecdoche

c)

metonymy

d)

paradox

28.

Who knows what Silicon Valley is up to these days

a)

apostrophe

b)

metonymy

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

29.

The pen is mightier than the sword

a)

meiosis

b)

synecdoche

c)

metonymy

d)

oxymoron

30.

The term ‘hired hands‘ refers to the staff or workers

a)

synecdoche

b)

paradox

c)

simile

d)

apostrophe

31.

When we hear the word ‘boots‘ it can often refer to soldiers, for example, ‘the boots are in battle.’

a)

meiosis

b)

synecdoche

c)

metonymy

d)

simile

AP Test Review - Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 31mins

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