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Rhetorical devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?                                    
a)
A. Alliteration 
b)
B. Allusion
c)
C. Anaphora
2.
*Great Depression
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
 *Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful

a)

A. tricolon

b)
B. Paradox
c)
C. Oxymoron
d)

anadiplosis

3.
A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 
a)
A. Imagery 
b)
B. Personification 
c)
C. Rhetoric 
d)
E. Rhetorical Question 
4.
"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum
a)
A. Exemplum
b)
B. Hyperbole
c)
C. Anaphora
5.
He refuses to donate any money to the charity.  He is such a scrooge. 
This statement is a(n)...
a)
allusion
b)
juxtapose 
c)
simile
d)
anecdote
6.
To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices?
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
allusion
d)
logos
7.
This is an example of...
a)
ethos 
b)
logos 
c)
pathos
8.
“As a dental hygienist, I’ve seen what infection can do. That’s why I strongly recommend flossing daily.”
a)
ethos
b)
logos
c)
pathos
9.
“Mom, you know that I am a self-starter, a dedicated learner, and an A student. You can trust that I will not misuse my phone in class.”
This is an example of... 
a)
ethos
b)
logos
c)
pathos
10.
 “Mom, did you know that, according to newsweek.com, having a cell phone at school does not lead to lower grades. A study of 1,700 high school students found that there is absolutely no correlation between these two things. I can have my phone without my grades suffering.”
a)
ethos
b)
logos 
c)
pathos
11.

 “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...

a)
pathos
b)
logos 
c)
ethos
12.

"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...

a)
simile 
b)
metaphor
c)
anecdote
d)

oxymoron

13.
"We shall not flag or fail.  We shall go on to the end. We shall fight n France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans." 
This is an example of...
a)

understatement

b)
personification
c)

hyperbole 

d)

anaphora

14.

'Many are called, but few are chosen

a)

allusion

b)

antithesis

c)

anaphora

d)

chiasmus

15.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." (Yoda)

a)

tricolon

b)

oxymoron

c)

Anadiplosis

d)

antithesis

16.

“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.

a)

antithesis

b)

amplification

c)

allusion

d)

metaphor

17.

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.

a)

metaphor

b)

allusion

c)

appeal to logos

d)

alliteration

18.

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

a)

chiasmus

b)

tricolon

c)

anadiplosis

d)

anaphora

19.

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” (John F. Kennedy)

a)

metaphor

b)

anadiplosis

c)

chiasmus

d)

tricolon

20.

"To err is human, to forgive, divine" (Alexander Pope)

a)

tricolon

b)

anadiplosis

c)

antithesis

d)

oxymoron