Rhetorical Devices

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

It was a bit amusing that he only read the last page. Now he has a lot of misunderstandings.

• metaphor

• understatement

• polysyndeton

• anaphora

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

I'm surprised; Glasses didn't know the answer to the Trivia question.

• metaphor

• understatement

• metonymy

• apostrophe

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

There should be no trucks in the carpool lane, no suvs in the carpool lane, never any commercial vehicles in the carpool lane for your family should be safe in the carpool lane!

• understatement

• polysyndeton

• apostrope

• epiphora

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

Justice is never attainable for those who step on the already downtrodden. Justice is never attainable for those who ignore the loud suffering, anguished cries, of others.

• understatement

• epipohra

• anaphora

• aposiopesis

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

I love you because you are gentle. Your gentleness blooms from love.

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

• metonymy

• chaismus

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

She stuck to sticky notes, since sticky notes stuck to her.

• allusion

• chaismus

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

Over, over, the waves rolled around; the boat along with the waves; the lighthouse peering at it every rotation, intrigued--then, not intrigued enough to act.

• asyndeton

• hyperbole

• allusion

• aposiopesis

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

Stevie watched the Surgical Instruments funnel into the conference building, backs straight with the regal defiance of those who often faced death and lived to boast about it.

• metonymy

• aposiopesis

• allusion

• chiasmus

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

There is no joy on October the thirty first, as tragedy strikes. Terror you can hear--

• anaphora

• aposiopesis

• allusion

• apostrophe

Identify the Rhetorical Device:

All the iPads stared blankly at the teacher. They were ready to google "cognizant" when she stopped lecturing.

• hyperbole

• allusion

• asyndeton

• metonymy