Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 1:

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• allusion

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 2:

A comparison between two things [Simile/Metaphor/Personification]

• allusion

• analogy

• aphorism

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 3:

Repetition of successive lines in separate sentences of phrases in a text.

• aphorism

• anecdote

• anaphora

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 4:

A writer's choice of words; an important element in the writer's voice or style.

• diction

• vernacular

• examples

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 5:

A reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter.

• tone

• diction

• examples

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 6:

A question that is asked without expecting an answer.

• rhetorical question

• allusion

• persuasion

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 7:

The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech.

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 8:

Writing, usually nonfiction, that influences the reader.

• ethos

• persuasion

• repetition

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Question 9:

The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 10:

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Simile

• Invective

• Analogy