WorksheetsRhetorical Devices Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
Special patterns of words and ideas that create emphasis, stir emotion, or explain a concept; especially in speeches and other oral presentations.
Allusion
Analogy
Rhetorical Device
Rhetorical Question
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it to explain some aspect of the first thing.
Rhetorical Question
Rhetorical Device
Analogy
Allusion
A comparison that describes an object or idea in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. It states that one thing is another thing.
Rhetorical Question
Allusion
Metaphor
Restatement
A comparison that describes an object or idea in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. It states that one thing is similar to another with the words 'like' or 'as'.
Allusion
Hyperbole
Simile
Restatement
When a writer repeats the beginning sounds of words to draw attention to them
Allusion
Restatement
Alliteration
Rhetorical Question
