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Rhetorical and Literary Devices

Quiz by Steve Hickman

Grade 9
English Language Arts
Common Core

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  • Q1
    Rhetoric
    the art of persuading an audience to act, approve, or agree. It consists of three parts: Invention- finding the arguments or proofs
    30s
  • Q2
    Disposition
    the arrangement of the argument or proof
    30s
  • Q3
    Style
    the choice of words, verbal patterns, and rhythms that will most effectively express the material
    30s
  • Q4
    Allusion
    when a speaker or writer refers to a familiar person, artwork, or event often in order to draw upon its themes and emotion.
    30s
  • Q5
    Chiasmus
    figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second.
    30s
  • Q6
    “Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church?”-- T. S. Eliot
    restatement
    allusion
    Chiasmus
    repetition
    30s
  • Q7
    Juxtaposition
    placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose
    30s
  • Q8
    Parallelism
    where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance.
    30s
  • Q9
    "I have always searched for, but never found the perfect painting for that wall.“
    parallelism
    invention
    repetition
    allusion
    30s
  • Q10
    Antithesis
    the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences
    30s
  • Q11
    “They promised freedom and provided slavery”
    anadiplosis
    chiasmus
    antithesis
    allusion
    30s
  • Q12
    Anaphora
    regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.
    30s
  • Q13
    "We shall fight in the trenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky."
    disposition
    juxtaposition
    antithesis
    anaphora
    30s
  • Q14
    Anadiplosis
    repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.
    30s
  • Q15
    "The crime was common, common be the pain." (Alexander Pope)
    rhetoric
    anaphora
    antithesis
    anadiplosis
    30s

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