WorksheetsRhetorical devices
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
*Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful
A. tricolon
anadiplosis
This statement is a(n)...
This is an example of...
“Mom, I don't want to go to school. What if there is a gunman at school, and I have no way to communicate with you aside from my phone?” This is an example of an appeal to...
"Life is but a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets and then is heard no more" This is an example of a...
oxymoron
This is an example of...
understatement
hyperbole
anaphora
'Many are called, but few are chosen
allusion
antithesis
anaphora
chiasmus
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." (Yoda)
tricolon
oxymoron
Anadiplosis
antithesis
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
antithesis
amplification
allusion
metaphor
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
metaphor
allusion
appeal to logos
alliteration
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
chiasmus
tricolon
anadiplosis
anaphora
“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” (John F. Kennedy)
metaphor
anadiplosis
chiasmus
tricolon
"To err is human, to forgive, divine" (Alexander Pope)
tricolon
anadiplosis
antithesis
oxymoron
