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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?A. AlliterationB. MetaphorC. RhetoricalD. Allusion
- 2. Multiple ChoiceA similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?A.SimileB.InvectiveC. AlliterationD. Analogy
- 3. Multiple ChoiceA figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?A. UnderstatementB. D. SimileC. Oxymoron
- 4. Multiple ChoiceA statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is?A. Understatement/Meiosis
B. PersonificationC.Paralellism - 5. Multiple ChoiceThe fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.A. ParadoxB. JuxtapositionE. Satire
- 6. Multiple ChoiceA statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices?A. ParadoxB.
B. HyperboleC. Satire - 7. Multiple ChoiceUsing several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?A. AlliterationB. AllusionC. Anaphora
- 8. Multiple Choice*Great Depression
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
*Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautifulA. anecdoteB. ParadoxC. Oxymoron - 9. Multiple ChoiceA question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?A. ImageryB. PersonificationC. RhetoricE. Rhetorical Question
- 10. Multiple Choice"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' PeachumA. ExemplumB. HyperboleC. Anaphora
- 11. Multiple Choice“It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Cesar, by whom Pompey was destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to blame …. When once Alexander had given way to fears of super natural influence, his mind grew so disturbed and so easily alarmed…… But a diseased habit of body, caused by drugs which Olympias gave him, had ruined not only his health, but his understanding.”A. AnecdoteB. ExemplumC. ParableD. Thesis
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?A. MetaphorB. SatireC. AnaphoraD. Irony
- 13. Multiple ChoiceTalking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is which rhetorical device?A. ImageryB. AlliterationC. RhetoricD. Apostrophe
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhen a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events.A. A. ImageryB. AlliterationC. RhetoricD. E. Allusion
- 15. Multiple ChoiceBack in the ‘80s, teens loved to say “that’s debatable” about claims they didn’t agree with (such as “you should clean your room” and “you shouldn’t go to that movie”). This age-old, neon-colored, bangle-wearing, peg-legged wisdom holds true today.
What is this an example of?A. AnecdoteB. ThesisC. Exeplum - Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags