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Rhetorical Terms

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  • Q1
    What is the technique where the last word of the sentence begins the next sentence?
    Anaphora
    Anadiplosis
    Anastrophe
    Epanalepsis
    10s
  • Q2
    What is the rhetorical term being used in this picture?
    Question Image
    Euphemism
    Asyndeton
    Apostrophe
    Appositive
    20s
  • Q3
    What term does the opposite of anaphora?
    Epanalepsis
    Metonymy
    Epistrophe
    Gerund
    10s
  • Q4
    What is being used in this sentence: "They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked."
    Subordinate conjunction
    Polysyndeton
    Ad hominem
    Zeugma
    10s
  • Q5
    Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole? (EX: All hands on deck)
    Metonymy
    Participle
    Personification
    Synecdoche
    10s
  • Q6
    What is the being used in this sentence: "Your love is a fine cloth- a rag, actually, deteriorating as the elements take their toll."
    Hyperbole
    Inductive
    Simile
    Irony
    10s
  • Q7
    What is an adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject of the sentence?
    Metaphor
    Predicate adjective
    Pun
    Predicate nominative
    10s
  • Q8
    What is a noun or pronoun that uses a linking verb to unite, describe, or rename the noun in the subject of the sentence?
    Subordinate conjunction
    Syllogism
    Predicate nominative
    Paradox
    10s
  • Q9
    What is the term being used here: "My silent love grows louder with each passing minute."
    Irony
    Onomatopoeia
    Paradox
    Malapropism
    10s
  • Q10
    What is the term for a conjunction that makes and independent clause into a dependent clause?
    Subordinate conjunction
    Simple sentence
    Syntax
    The letter "and"
    10s
  • Q11
    What is a minor device in which two or more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun?
    Tricolon
    Object
    Zeugma
    Non sequitur
    10s
  • Q12
    What's it called when two words are placed together that create a sense of opposition?
    Connotation
    Parallelism
    Paradox
    Oxymoron
    10s
  • Q13
    What is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several poetic lines, sentences, paragraphs, etc?
    Epanalepsis
    Anadiplosis
    Anaphora
    Aphorsim
    10s
  • Q14
    What term is used here: "The poisoned apple she ate to her gave cramps of a serious nature."
    Aphorism
    Antithesis
    Appositive
    Anastrophe
    10s
  • Q15
    What is the deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses called?
    Apostrophe
    Tricolon
    Asyndeton
    Polysyndeton
    10s

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