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Revision Rhetorical and Stylistic Devices
Revision Rhetorical and Stylistic Devices
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Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
Chomping cigarettes carefully is hardly delicious.
She went crashing, bashing, smashing through the room.
If I bleat when I speak it’s because I just got fleeced.
Youthful unionists interrupted the board meeting.
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Which of the following is an example of allusion?
She fell in love with him despite knowing he was a casanova
Hey coy smile reminded me of a painting I once saw in Paris.
His angered rained down with the force of Thor's hammer
She was a temptress - her breath smelled of apples
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Which of the following is a metaphor?
You are the apple of my eye.
She is as happy as a clam.
My love is like a red, red rose.
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A metaphor is a phrase that...?
says one thing is LIKE another
says one thing IS another
talks about elephants
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Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
She had a terrible pain in her back.
I was utterly exhausted by the process.
This lesson is going to take forever.
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Which of the following is an example of parallelism?
I like running, swimming, and to dance.
We shall fight on the seas; we shall fight with confidence
To err is human: to forgive is divine.
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Allusion is...
passing reference to a significant person/event/story, etc.
using abstract imagery to engage your audience
comparing something to a famous person or event
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Hyperbole is...
an extreme exaggeration
a phrase with strong imagery
a highly descriptive phrase
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Personification is...
another word for Artificial Intelligence
giving human qualities to animals or objects
using your personality to get what you want
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Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?
Tick tock goes the clock
It's embarrassing if your phone rings in class.
Water drips slowly from the tap.
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Anaphora is the...
repetition of a word/phrase to start successive sentences
repetition of a word/phrase to end successive sentences
use of similar grammatical structure in multiple sentences
use of similar words in multiple sentences
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Which of the following is an example of hypophora?
It's a pretty terrible story, isn't it?
I will win. Why? Because I've trained the most.
To be or not to be? That is the question.
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Which of the following is a simile?
He is a mountain of a man!
It's raining cats and dogs.
Her heart's as cold as ice
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Which of the following is an example of personification?
The wind whispered in the tree tops.
Time marches on.
Opportunity knocks.
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Which of the following is an example of anaphora?
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not steal...
See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.
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A simile is a phrase that...
says one thing IS another.
contrasts two things
says one thing is LIKE/AS another
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Alliteration is the...
repetition of the same consonant sound in successive words
use of the same starting sound in successive words
reference to other/famous works of literature
repetition of the same vowel sound in successive words
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Parallelism is...
the repetition of the same word in multiple sentences
successive clauses/sentences that are similarly structured.
repetition of the same phrase in successive sentences
repetition of the same word in successive sentences
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Hypophora is...
Repeating sentence structure in successive phrases
A question raised and immediately answered.
Repeating words in successive phrases
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Onomatopoeia is...
The comparison of multiple objects
A word that generates the sound it represents.
An impossible word to pronounce
