Rhetorical Devices Quiz: Blakely English 2

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

• antithesis

• anaphora

• oxymoron

• conduplicatio

Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration?

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
• “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door
• Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

The real estate agent said his new farm listing was like the Garden of Eden.

• alliteration

• irony

• allusion

• paralipsis

"You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it."

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Asyndeton

• Euphemism

This cartoon is an example of what type of rhetoical device?

• polysyndetons

• metaphor

• understatement

• synecdoche

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This is an example of which of the following?

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

• allusion

• anaphora

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What type of rhetoical device is this quote depicting?

• antithesis

• metonymy

• aposiopesis

• allusion

This picture depicts?

• personification

• oxymoron

• antithesis

• metonymy

This cartoon depicts the rhetorical device in which two things are in juxtaposition and are often in parallel structure.

• irony

• antithesis

• paradox

• paralipsis

Of what type rhetorical device is this example?

• hyperbole

• euphemism

• personification

• anaphora