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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the best definition for charged language?

a)

repetition of a specific phrase to create rhythm or structure

b)

referring to a well-known person, book, or institution.

c)

word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

d)

a question that has a very obvious answer, meant to further the argument

2.

What is the best definition for an analogy?

a)

comparing two unlike things to add emphasis

b)

word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

c)

repeating one word or phrase to add emphasis

d)

comparing two extreme opposite ideas

3.

What is the best definition for repetition?

a)

repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure

b)

repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis

c)

word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

d)

referring to well-known people, books, or institutions

4.

What is the best definition for parallelism?

a)

referring to a well-known person, book, or institution

b)

word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

c)

comparing two extreme opposites for emphasis

d)

a specific phrase that is used to create rhythm or structure

5.

What is the best definition for allusion?

a)

a comparison of two extreme opposites

b)

Referring to a well-known person, novel, or insitution

c)

Word choice that makes the reader feel a specific emotion

d)

A word or phrase that is repeated to add emphasis

6.

What is the best definition for antithesis?

a)

Comparing two extreme opposites for emphasis

b)

Referring to a well-known person, novel, or institution

c)

Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis

d)

A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

7.

What is the best definition for rhetorical questions?

a)

Repeating a specific phrase to add structure or rhythm.

b)

Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.

c)

Comparing two unlike things for emphasis.

d)

A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

8.

Which of the following is an example of charged language?

a)

"I feel that you are men of genuine good will."

b)

"Why direct action?"

c)

Thomas Jefferson said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal."

9.

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"The nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

a)

analogy

b)

charged language

c)

parallelism

d)

antithesis

10.

Which rhetorical device is utilized in the following:

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

a)

analogy

b)

charged language

c)

repetition

d)

parallelism

11.

What rhetorical device is used:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

a)

parallelism

b)

charged language

c)

analogy

d)

antithesis

12.

Which rhetorical device is:

Will we be extremists

for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or

for the extension of justice?

a)

analogy

b)

allusion

c)

antithesis

d)

rhetorical questions