WorksheetsRhetorical Devices
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
“She was as fast as lighting” is a sentence that uses which rhetorical device?
Metaphor
Simile
Climax
Alliteration
Which of the following is an example of an anaphora?
They want money. We need money. Nobody has money.
Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers
Fish swim. Fish eat. Fish splash.
What do you mean?
What is the function of a rhetorical question?
create mental images
to make the reader reflect on something
humorous effect
to compare two aspects
Who wouldn’t want to see The Great Wall of China?
Inversion
Irony
Personification
Rhetorical question
He lost his car, his job and his house.
Parallelism
Inversion
Climax
Neologism
Out in a lovely, lovely country town.
Repetition
Parallelism
Climax
Anaphora
I am going to visit my grandma (my dad's mom) today.
Parenthesis
Irony
Repetition
Alliteration
My mother makes me happy.
Exaggeration
Alliteration
Metaphor
Repetition
Another expression for "exaggeration" is "euphemism".
Correct
Wrong
Where can we find rhetorical devices?
in speeches
in everyday language
in poetry
in stories
