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WorksheetsRhetorical Devices
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Three nouns, adjectives or verbs will be used in a list within a sentence
Anaphora
Asyndeton
Lists of three
Hyperbole
The technique of repeating the same word and phrase
Polysyndeton
Asyndeton
Repetition
Allusion
The writer incorporates aspects of their personal experience into the text – look for ‘I’
Emotional language
Personal involvement
Lists of three
Facts and statistics
The writer involves the reader by relating the subject to their lives "You,we,us,our"
Audience Involvement
Personal involvement
Facts and statistics
Expert opinion
Information and data, that can be proved to be true
Audience Involvement
Personal Involvement
Facts and statistics
Expert opinion
The knowledge of an expert is referred to by the writer
Facts and statistics
Personal opinion
Audience involvement
Expert opinion/quotation
The writer uses superlatives and adjectives to make a situation seem much worse / better than it really is
Rhetorical Question
Over-exaggeration
Emotional Language
Irony
Language that is used to create a particular emotional response in the reader
Emotional Language
Facts and statistics
Irony/sarcasm
Pun
Ideas are presented in a way that seems opposite to what is really meant
Emotional language
Over-exaggeration
Irony/sarcasm
Pun
A joking use of a word sounding the same as another
Irony/sarcasm
Anaphora
Alliteration
Pun
Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses
Anaphora
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Allusion
Repeating words at the clauses' ends
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Omitting conjunctions in a list
Anaphora
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Antithesis
Using multiple conjunctions in a list
Anaphora
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Epistrophe
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
Antithesis
Antimetabole
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
A phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order
Antithesis
Antimetabole
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Any attempt to appeal to the intellect. Facts and statistics.
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"Ethics” and refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Emotions (Getting personal)
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
“I have a dream that four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character” (King 5).
This is an example of what rhetorical technique?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
