WorksheetsMore on Authorial Choices - Literary Device
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the rhetorical device that involves leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, and clauses?
Parallelism
Juxtaposition
Asyndeton
Anaphora
Which rhetorical device is described as a figure of speech using strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas?
Persona
Epiphany
Antithesis
Anecdote
What is the term for a short, witty statement?
Inversion
Parody
Epigram
Aphorism
Which rhetorical device involves placing things, normally not under the same category, side by side for emphasis?
Concession
Inversion
Juxtaposition
Propaganda
What is the term for a sudden understanding or realization?
Rhetorical question
Pedantic
Inversion
Epiphany
Which rhetorical device is a question used to achieve an awareness in the audience with no reply expected?
Epigram
Rhetorical question
Anachronism
Satire
What is the term for the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions?
Persona
Anaphora
Rhetorical shift
Polysyndeton
Which rhetorical device involves changing from one tone, attitude, or distance to another?
Digression
Rhetorical shift
Propaganda
Colloquial
What is the term for a violent verbal attack?
Anecdote
Inveigh
Propaganda
Parody
Which rhetorical device involves the coordination of syntax with similar words or phrases for emphasis?
Anthesis
Epigram
Parallelism
Pedantic
What is the term for a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information?
Satire
Rhetorical question
Propaganda
Concession
Which rhetorical device involves the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing?
Satire
Rhetorical question
Polysyndeton
Persona
What is the term for a brief, witty statement?
Aphorism
Parody
Epigram
Inversion
Which rhetorical device involves placing something out of time, where it does not belong?
Anachronism
Epiphany
Inversion
Juxtaposition
What is the term for a mournful tone over what has passed or been lost?
Propaganda
Parody
Inveigh
Elegiac
