Rhetorical Devices Quiz

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is alliteration?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is an analogy?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is onomatopoeia?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is allusion?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• The act of casually referencing something, usually a work of popular culture

What is an oxymoron?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A figure of speech that uses two opposite words together

What is satire?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• Using humor to criticize public figures

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is a paradox?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Making a statement that seems self-contradictory or impossible but actually makes sense

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to

What is a simile?

• A comparison in which something is said to figuratively be something else

• An intentional exaggeration

• Repeating the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words

• A word that imitates the sound it refers to