Rhetorical Techniques

Match the following

• Repetition

• Beginning and ending with same word, phrase, or clause

• Analogy

• Main clause appears at beginning of sentence

• Periodic sentence

• Using the same pattern of words, phrases, or clauses

• Loose sentence

• Extended metaphor

• Epanalepsis

• Main clause appears at the end of the sentence

Which of the following sentences best demonstrates parallel structure?

• She likes to swim, to run, and biking.

• She likes swimming, running, and biking.

• She likes to swim, running, and to bike.

• She likes swimming, to run, and biking.

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Identify the sentence that uses antithesis.

• It is what it is

• Hope for the best, expect the worst

• He likes cooking his family and his pets.

• She sings beautifully and dances gracefully.

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Which of the following sentences is an example of polysyndeton?

• Neither wind nor rain nor sleet will stop me.

• Hope is a bird, a plane, a shooting star.

• Do or do not: there is no try.

• She is smart; she is kind; she is beautiful.

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Identify the sentence that uses asyndeton.

• Reduce, reuse, recycle

• I wish I was a little bit taller, and I wish I was a baller

• Don't ever use the word "don't"

• I was so bored and tired and lonely and afraid in English class.

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Which of the following is a loose sentence?

• Despite the heavy rain, the match continued.

• The match continued despite the heavy rain.

• The match, despite the heavy rain, continued.

• Despite the heavy rain, the match, which was very important, continued.

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Identify the periodic sentence.

• Birdlike, the almanac hovers half open above the child, hovers above the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears.

• The birdlike almanac hovers half open above the child, hovers above the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears.

• Half open above the child, above the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears, the birdlike almanac hovers.

• The almanac, birdlike above the child and the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears, hovers.

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Which sentence uses epanalepsis?

• The king is dead, long live the king.

• Believe me when I say believing is not enough.

• She left the note right beside her.

• I only love one man, and that man is me.

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Which sentence uses repetition effectively?

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.

• Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out alive.

• To be successful, overcome your loudest critic: you.

• Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.

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Which of the following is an analogy?

• A dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.

• I had to wait in the station for ten days– an eternity.

• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle.

• All the world's a stage.

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