Rhetorical Devices

Which rhetorical device is an indirect reference to something?

• Alter-ego

• Allusion

• Anecdote

• Colloquialism

What is the term for a humorous scene inserted into a serious story?

• Colloquialism

• Comic relief

• Connotation

• Denotation

What is a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle?

• Adage

• Aphorism

• Allegory

• Analogy

What is personification?

• A word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind

• Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human

• A major category into which a literary work fits

• A recurring idea in a piece of literature

What is foreshadowing?

• A hint about what will occur later in a story

• A comparison of two unlike things

• A common expression that doesn't make sense literally

• A long, emotionally violent attack

What is imagery?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind

• A hint about what will occur later in a story

• A recurring idea in a piece of literature

What is verbal irony?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• When you say something and mean the opposite

• A hint about what will occur later in a story

• A recurring idea in a piece of literature

What is juxtaposition?

• Placing things side by side for comparison

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A hint about what will occur later in a story

• A recurring idea in a piece of literature

What is an oxymoron?

• A humorous imitation of a serious work

• A seemingly contradictory situation that is true

• When contradictory terms are grouped together

• The repetition of the same consonant sound

What is a paradox?

• A seemingly contradictory situation that is actually true

• The repetition of the same consonant sound

• A humorous imitation of a serious work

• The use of a word with multiple meanings