
AP Lang Rhetorical Devices
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
11th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:
"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."
antimetabole
epistrophe
anaphora
rhetorical question
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:
"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail."
epistrophe
parallelism
apposition
antimetabole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
“Mom, you know that I am a self-starter, a dedicated learner, and an A student. You can trust that I will not misuse my phone in class.”
This is an example of...
ethos
logos
pathos
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This picture is a visual example of which rhetorical device?
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.
Personification
Juxtaposition
Irony
Paradox
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
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