Do You Know About Rhetorical Devices?
This is a multiple choice quiz on rhetorical devices, it is simply asking you to choose the correct word for the correct definition.
- 1.The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Alliteration
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Rhetorical
- D.
Allusion
- E.
Juxtapostion
- 2.A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Analogy
- B.
Alliteration
- C.
Hyperbole
- D.
Invective
- E.
Simile
- 3.An implied comparison between two unlike things is which of the following rhetorical dveices?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Repetition
- C.
Personification
- D.
Simile
- E.
Metaphor
- 4.A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Zuegma
- B.
Synecdoche
- C.
Understatement
- D.
Simile
- E.
Metaphor
- 5.To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical dveices?
- A.
Alliteraion
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Satire
- D.
Rhetoric
- E.
Parody
- 6.A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is?
- A.
Paralellism
- B.
Metonymy
- C.
Understatement/Meiosis
- D.
Analogy
- E.
Personification
- 7.Using a word or phrase pattern that are similar to create emphasis is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Invective
- C.
Litotes
- D.
Paralellism
- E.
Repetition
- 8.To call attention to something by making a big contrast between two things is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Paradox
- B.
Juxtaposition
- C.
Analogy
- D.
Synecdoche
- E.
Satire
- 9.A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Paradox
- B.
Parody
- C.
Satire
- D.
Synecdoche
- E.
Hyperbole
- 10.To illustrate an idea, feeling, etc by describing is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Repetiton
- B.
Personification
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Paralellism
- E.
Pun
- 11.To give authority to an idea by making an association with something the reader knows is which rhetorical device?
- A.
Allusion
- B.
Simile
- C.
Hyperbole
- D.
Litotes
- E.
Invective
- 12.One makes fun of something while the other criticizes something by copying its style is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Imagery/Personification
- B.
Zuegma/Pun
- C.
Repetition/Alliteration
- D.
Simile/Metaphor
- E.
Satire/Parody
- 13.A story told in order to give an example, to make something real or more is which of the following devices?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Analogy
- C.
Metaphor
- D.
Anectdote
- E.
Personification
- 14.A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Personification
- C.
Metonymy
- D.
Rhetoric
- E.
Rhetorical Question
- 15.An abusive attack is which of the following rheorical devices?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Pun
- C.
Invective
- D.
Alliteration
- E.
Rhetorical Question
- 16.When a word or phrase can be used as a substitute for another phrase because they are closely related is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Rhetoric
- B.
Metonymy
- C.
Hyperbole
- D.
Litotes
- E.
Invective
- 17.When A part of somethin is used to represent the whole is what rhetorical device?
- A.
Zuegma
- B.
Pun
- C.
Synecdoche
- D.
Allusion
- E.
Paralellism
- 18.Giving an uliving, unhumane thing human characteristics is which of the following Rhetorical devices?
- A.
Litotes
- B.
Rhetoric
- C.
Simile
- D.
Metaphor
- E.
Personification
- 19.Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is which rhetorical device?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Alliteration
- C.
Rhetoric
- D.
Apostrophe
- E.
Allusion
- 20.The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Satire
- C.
Anaphora
- D.
Irony
- E.
Pun
- 21.Saying one thing meaning another verbal, situational, or dramatic is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Irony
- B.
Anaphora
- C.
Litotes
- D.
Hyperbole
- E.
Juxtaposition
- 22.Using one word to govern two parts of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Pun
- B.
Analogy
- C.
Irony
- D.
Zuegma
- E.
Hyperbole
- 23.A phrase that uses confusion for rhetorical humor is which of the following rhetorical devices?
- A.
Synecdoche
- B.
Pun
- C.
Zuegma
- D.
Metonymy
- E.
Alliteration
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