Rhetorical Terms Practice

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Classify: Ruth ran rapidly to the river. (Options: assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia)

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alliteration

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wally willow whittled and whistled

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alliteration

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From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which line contains an allusion? Options: And therefore have I little talked of love, Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, For Venus smiles not in a house of tears, All of the above

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For Venus smiles not in a house of tears

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Identify the literary device in the phrase: "From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled..." Options: Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance, None of the Above

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Alliteration

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Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes. Options: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, None of the Above.

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Alliteration

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Diction

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An author's choice of words

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The THEME of a work is

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an idea that is dealt with

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Any language that appeals to the senses is called ___

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imagery

Front

a comparison between two unlike things

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metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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simile