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Rhetorical Devices

Quiz by Katie Parnell

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  • Q1
    Repetition of beginning consonant sounds: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Antithesis
    Anaphora
    Alliteration
    Aporia
    30s
  • Q2
    Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines: Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!
    Anaphora
    Alliteration
    Aporia
    Antithesis
    30s
  • Q3
    Opposition or juxtaposition of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction: "Not that I love Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
    Antithesis
    Alliteration
    Aporia
    Anaphora
    30s
  • Q4
    Questioning oneself (or rhetorically asking the audience), often pretending to be in doubt: "The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or of men?"
    Alliteration
    Anaphora
    Antithesis
    Aporia
    30s
  • Q5
    A sudden pause or interruption in the middle of a sentence (often for dramatic effect): "I will have ravages on you both that all the world shall-- I will do such things---what they are yet, I know not."
    Conduplicatio
    Apostrophe
    Aposiopesis
    Asyndeton
    30s
  • Q6
    A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person, either absent or present, real or imagined: "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?"
    Apostrophe
    Aposiopesis
    Asyndeton
    Conduplicatio
    30s
  • Q7
    The absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words: "Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure?"
    Conduplicatio
    Asyndeton
    Aposiopesis
    Apostrophe
    30s
  • Q8
    Repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses: "We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future."
    Conduplicatio
    Apostrophe
    Aposiopesis
    Asyndeton
    30s
  • Q9
    A substitution of a more pleasant expression for one that is rude or offensive: "He passed away" rather than "He died."
    Hyperbole
    Euphemism
    Irony
    Metonymy
    30s
  • Q10
    Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect: "I died laughing."
    Irony
    Hyperbole
    Euphemism
    Metonymy
    30s
  • Q11
    Verbal expression in which words mean something contrary to what is actually said: Looking at an empty wallet and saying, "Lunch is on me!"
    Dramatic Irony
    Hyperbole
    Situational Irony
    Verbal Irony
    30s
  • Q12
    When the opposite from what is expected happens: An ambulance runs over someone.
    Dramatic Irony
    Situational Irony
    Hyperbole
    Verbal Irony
    30s
  • Q13
    When the audience knows something the characters don't. We know Brutus is planning to kill Caesar but he doesn't.
    Situational Irony
    Dramatic Irony
    Hyperbole
    Verbal Irony
    30s
  • Q14
    A reference to an object or person by naming only a part of the object or person. "She stood in the driveway watching as the beards moved her furniture."
    Irony
    Paralipsis
    Metonymy
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q15
    Pretending to omit something by drawing attention to it: "A politician saying, 'I will not even mention the fact that my opponent was a poor student."
    Paralipsis
    Metonymy
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    30s

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