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Rhetorical Terms Practice Part 1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Phrase:
pink and purple popsicles
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
hyperbole
2.
A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
consonance
d)
parable
3.
A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.
a)

alliteration

b)
assonance
c)

anaphora

4.
What is assonance?
a)
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
b)
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
c)
The repetition of any letter sounds in a line
d)
I don't care!
5.
Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
imagery
d)
cute
6.

My diet was going well until the new chocolate store went in down the street, chocolate is my Achilles’ heel.

a)

anaphora

b)

apostrophe

c)

allusion

7.
Joe is such an Honest Abe, he never can keep our secrets.
a)

alliteration

b)

apostrophe

c)

allusion

8.
Harriet Tubman was a Moses to the slaves who she took north to freedom.
a)

allusion

b)

anaphora

c)

apostrophe

9.

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

a)

anaphora

b)

foreshadowing

c)

analogy

d)

allusion

10.
A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an object, concept, or person (often absent) that is unable to respond. 
a)
Analogy
b)
Alliteration
c)
Allegory
d)
Apostrophe
11.
A comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation or clarification. 
a)
Apostrophe
b)
Analogy
c)
Antithesis
d)
Archetype
12.

"If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up and safe."

a)

anaphora

b)

analogy

c)

allusion

13.

Repetition of successive lines in separate sentences of phrases in a text.

a)

aphorism

b)

anecdote

c)

repetition

d)

anaphora

14.

What rhetorical device is being used?
"We will pass the test! We will be high achievers! And we will celebrate by eating donuts!"

a)
alliteration
b)

analogy

c)
anaphora
15.

“Shoes, my beautiful new shoes. You’ll look great with my black plaid skirt.”

a)

personification

b)

apostrophe

c)

metonymy

d)

synecdoche