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Rhetorical Device Quizzes, Questions & Answers

Alliteration, allegory, absurdity, and assonance; anaphora, epiphora, and hypophora; parallelism, pathos, and parody. Rhetorical devices are the tools of every writer and speaker to enliven tired prose and change the mind of even the hardest-hearted (or headed) opponent.

Whether appealing to an audience’s logic and reason, tugging on their heartstrings, or asking them to act in good character, rhetorical devices are used to convey powerful meaning and evoke emotional responses in order to carry debates and win argument through the use of incongruity, metaphor, or even simply beautiful sounding or beautifully meaningful words.

Do you have resources like rhetorical devices at your fingertips? Or do you wish you could write or speak that way? Take our quizzes and show how much you know.

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This is a quiz using the rhetorical devices. The object is to show that one has mastered basic mastery of the rhetoric devices.

Questions: 25  |  Attempts: 13178   |  Last updated: Sep 12, 2023
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    Which of the options below has the following definiton: giving an unliving or unhumane thing human characteristics.
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    She likes to eat chocolate eclairs, take moonlit walks, and sing classical jazz.
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Do you know about hyperbole and understatement in figurative language? How are these two rhetorical devices interlinked with each other? This trivia quiz will check your knowledge about the same. Hyperbole and understatement are...

Questions: 10  |  Attempts: 2176   |  Last updated: Mar 27, 2024
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    Which of the following are examples of hyperboles? I. He's 500 years old. II. I told him a million times not to do that. III. I waited in line for centuries. IV. He is as big as a cow.
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This is a multiple choice quiz on rhetorical devices, it is simply asking you to choose the correct word for the correct definition.

Questions: 23  |  Attempts: 10220   |  Last updated: Oct 11, 2023
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    What is the term for the skill of convincing someone using words and language techniques such as alliteration, metaphor, and other techniques?
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Questions: 16  |  Attempts: 364   |  Last updated: Oct 8, 2024
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    She likes to eat chocolate eclairs, take moonlit walks, and sing classical jazz.
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