12th Grade Essay Quizzes, Questions & Answers

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Choose the correct technique or device after each example. Note that this is not a quiz; it is intended as a tool to acquire and identify rhetorical terms, so take notes.

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 171 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question 1
These devices were calculated to stir his audience into a rational hysteria.

Apostrophe

Oxymoron

Parallelism

Asyndeton

Synecdoche

Sample Question 2
Come over Saturday night, and we'll break bread together.

Simile

Personification

Pun

Synecdoche

Prepositional phrase

Sample Question 3
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. Winston Churchill

Synecdoche

Epistrophe

Anaphora

Ellipses

Polysyndeton

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How Well Do You Know The Book 'thanks For Arguing' ?

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 76 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2025

Sample Question
What are the two forms of Seduction?

Intimacy/Non-intimacy

Sexual/Non-sexual

Internal seduction/External seduction

Romantic/ Non-Romantic

Thank You For Arguing Book Quiz

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 813 | Last updated: Jul 17, 2025

Sample Question
Generally, what does the book reveal?

Techniques on how to manipulate people

Strategies on how to win over arguments

Tips on how to be a good pretender

Tricks behind advertising and political campaigns

AP Portfolio Rhetorical Devices- Alex Vetterlein

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 318 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
The following sentence is an example of: Today I am going to the zoo and shopping and the mall and eating at a restaurant and watching movies with friends and will go to a party.

Antithesis

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Anaphora

Gt English Rhetorical Devices

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 95 | Last updated: Aug 22, 2025

Sample Question
Which of the following is this: figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase.

Metonymy

Parallelism

Anaphora

Anadiplosis

Trivia Questions Quiz On Schemes and Tropes!

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 546 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2025

Sample Question
What is the difference between paronomasia and syllepsis?

Nothing. Both of them are forms of pun.

Paronomasia is using a word that sounds like another word. Syllepsis is using a word that has different meanings when describing different things in a sentence.

Paronomasia is using a word that has different meaning when describing different things in a sentence. Syllepsis is using a word that sounds like another word.

Paronomasia is constructed in a grammatical order. Syllepsis is constructed in a grammatical structure.

Week 2 Reading Quiz

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 2642 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Tan states that she was giving a talk to a large group of people. It was the same type of talk she gave regularly, but with one difference. What was that difference?

She was using one of her other "Englishes."

Her mother was in the audience.

It was about her book "The Joy Luck Club."

She was speaking in Mandarin.

"Shooting An Elephant" By George Orwell Quiz

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 10543 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2025

Sample Question
What is Orwell's purpose in writing "Shooting an Elephant"?

To describe life in Burma

To expose the evils of imperialism

To argue for wildlife conservation