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Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Tone of a piece of writing refers to its:
a)
Emotion
b)
Reason
c)
Speaker
d)
Time
2.

What does the S in SOAPSTone represent

a)

Subject and Speaker

b)

Sentence

c)

Structure

d)

Syntax

3.

What does the O in SOAPSTone represent?

a)

Oppression

b)

Occasion

c)

Object

d)

Onomatopoeia

4.

What does the A in SOAPSTone represent?

a)

Adjective

b)

Answer

c)

Audience

d)

Allusion

5.

What does the P in SOAPSTone represent?

a)

Paradox

b)

Paraphrase

c)

Presenter

d)

Purpose

6.

What is Tone?

a)

The author's style

b)

The author's attitude toward the subject

c)

The way a story sounds

d)

The author's voice

7.

What is the occasion in a rhetorical situation?

a)

A fancy affair

b)

The time, place and context

c)

A special event

d)

A large party

8.

What is rhetoric?

a)

The art of persuasive speaking

b)

A rhetorical question

c)

An essay

d)

A short story

9.

What word best describes, what prompted the writing in the first place? what is happening in the world during the time of the writing?

a)

Occasion

b)

Subject

c)

Tone

d)

Level of Language

10.

What word best describes, who is the writing directed towards? why?

a)

Subject

b)

Audience

c)

Speaker

d)

Details

11.

What word best describes, WHY was it written? how does the author want the audience to respond?

a)

Audience

b)

Purpose

c)

Subject

d)

Tone

12.

What word best describes, WHAT is the writing mainly about? (different from purpose)

a)

Tone

b)

Purpose

c)

Details

d)

Subject

13.

What word best describes, who are they? what have they accomplished? gender? race? education? what do you know about them prior to reading?

a)

Audience

b)

Occasion

c)

Speaker

d)

Subject

14.

What is the use of descriptions that appeal to sensory experience?

a)

Tone

b)

Diction

c)

Imagery

d)

Level of Language

15.

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

16.

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

a)

aphorism

b)

anecdote

c)

repetition

d)

anaphora

17.

A writer's choice of words; an important element in the writer's voice or style.

a)

tone

b)

diction

c)

vernacular

d)

examples

18.
OXYMORON
a)
A comparison between two things that uses like or as
b)
A connection that is made between two things
c)
A two-word paradox
d)
Words that imitate the sound they describe
19.
SIMILE
a)
A comparison that does not use like or as
b)
A comparison that uses like or as
c)
Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact
d)
Connecting two things
20.
HYPERBOLE
a)
The recurrence of initial consonant sounds
b)
repeating words or phrases in reverse order
c)
makes an idea seem less important than it really is
d)
An exaggeration
21.
ONOMATOPOEIA
a)
Words that imitate the sound they describe
b)
A comparison between two things that does not use like or as
c)
Uses words or phrases with a similar structure
d)
Makes an idea seem less important than it really is
22.
ALLITERATION
a)
Using a word with an opposite meaning
b)
Using adjectives or adjective phrases to describe a noun
c)
Using words that sound like the sounds they describe
d)
The recurrence of initial consonant sounds
23.

This ad is asking you to subscribe, which is what rhetorical device?

a)

Call to Action

b)

Metaphor

c)

Slogan

d)

Asterismos