Rhetorical Devices AP Language

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• apposition

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

• anthimeria

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

• parallelism

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• anthimeria

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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.”

• Epistrophe

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current.

• Irony

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Pun

means: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which rhetorical device involves the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect?

• Metonymy

• Anaphora

• Epizeuxis

• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following statement:

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

• Chiasmus

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4