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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

This is a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same word, phrase or sentence .

a)

Repetition

b)

Parallelism

c)

Repitition

d)

Parrelism

2.

This is a literary device that juxtaposes two or more similar syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same idea with slight modifications.

a)

Repetition

b)

Parrelism

c)

Repittion

d)

Parallelism

3.

“Like mother, like daughter.” This is an example of ______?

a)

Repetition

b)

Parralelism

c)

Repitition

d)

Parallelism

4.

“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?” from the movie of Taxi Driver (1976). This is an example of _____?

a)

Repitition

b)

Parallelism

c)

Repetition

d)

Parralelism

5.

This is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several subsequent clauses or phrases.

a)

Epistrophe

b)

Antithesis

c)

Anaphora

d)

Symploce

6.

This is a repetition of the same word at the end of every line.

a)

Anaphora

b)

Epiphora

c)

Epistrophe

d)

Antithesis

7.

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." This is an example of _____ ?

a)

Antithesis

b)

Anaphora

c)

Epistrophe

d)

Epiphora

8.

This is a specific type of parallelism in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive sentences.

a)

Anaphora

b)

Antithesis

c)

Epistrophe

d)

Epiphora

9.

The repetition is both at the end and at the beginning.

a)

Anaphora

b)

Symploce

c)

Epistrophe

d)

Asyndeton

10.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..” excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This is an example of ______?

a)

Epistrophe

b)

Epiphora

c)

Symploce

d)

Repetition