WorksheetsRHETORICAL DEVICES
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
Drive a hard bargain
Being out of control
Argue hard to get a favorable deal.
Having an accident.
Prepare a difficult contract
Back against the wall.
Climbing up a wall backwards.
Taken hostage
Being injured and needing support
Be in a difficult situation from where escape is difficult.
A chip off the old block.
Very hard working
Similar in some distinct way to your father or mother.
No longer young and strong
A man who has seen better days.
Bend over...
(a)
Burn the candle...
(a)
Burn the...
(a)
Tick the correct statement.
Onomatopoeia is based on sound.
Alliteration is based on comparison.
Hyperbole is based on human qualities.
Assonance is based on contradiction.
Tick the incorrect statement.
Hyperbaton is inversion of usual word order.
Irony means a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality.
Chiasmus means the repetition of a single consonant sound in a sentence.
Synecdoche is a word for a small component of something standing in rhetorically for the larger whole.
'Home is where the great are small,
And the small are great'
is an example of...
Oxymoron
Irony
Metaphor
Chiasmus
'Life is a roller-coaster.'
is an example of...
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
