Rhetorical Analysis Refresher

Question 1

Hyperboles are an exaggeration, but idioms are expressions

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True

Question 2

Rhetorical device? "Rock music mourns a group of heroes who died at twenty-seven: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopli

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Asyndeton

Question 3

Em dashes and colons work the same way because they can both...

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emphasize what is said at the end of a sentence

Question 4

Rhetorical device? "people who came of age amid the scourges of crack and AIDS and the generally barren social landscape

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Polysyndeton

Question 5

What is tone?

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the author's attitude towards a subject

Question 6

A compound sentence has two independent clauses that are linked with a

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conjunction (FANBOY)

Question 7

What rhetorical device? The vast majority of Americans—60 %—had “unfavorable” feelings about the March on Washington

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parenthesis

Question 8

Asyndeton is when you list USING conjunctions (and, but, or, etc)

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False

Question 9

Is this antithesis? "The problem here is not just a just-so chain of events, but the actual effects of the events."

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True

Question 10

What is hypophora?

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answering a rhetorical question

Question 11

A dependent clause...

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can't stand on its own

Question 12

What is hyperbole?

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an exaggeration

Question 13

What rhetorical device is this? "Tired and hungry and ready to go home"

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polysyndeton

Question 14

Rhetorical analysis is analyzing how someone tries...

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to persuade an audience

Question 15

Seeing the word "but" should make you consider if it's...

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antithesis

Question 16

What is parenthesis?

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emphasizing a dependent clause with em dashes or parenthesis

Question 17

Allusion is a reference to something historical/famous

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True

Question 18

Rhetorical device? "On a summer night when I was eight or nine, a man was shot dead on the street where my family lived"

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Anecdote

Question 19

A famous person talking about their childhood is an anecdote

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True

Question 20

Writing style refers to

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the types of words, sentences, and choices an author makes

Question 21

The following sentence uses the rhetorical device parenthesis: "She knew, she said later, that it was the right thing"

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False

Question 22

What is anaphora?

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repeating

Question 23

Is this antithesis? "But nothing changed."

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False

Question 24

What is Antithesis?

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contrasting

Question 25

A reference to the Bible is an anecdote

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False

Question 26

I need to know what rhetorical devices are because

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you can't identify something you don't know

Question 27

What is asyndeton?

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listing

Question 28

What do you use to determine the author's tone?

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all of these

Question 29

What is anecdote?

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referencing

Question 30

An introductory clause is always at the beginning of a sentence

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True

Question 31

What rhetorical device must also be present if there is hypophora?

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rhetorical question

Question 32

Where specifically on Schoology can I find the Level 1 Rhetoric Study Guide?

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Style Mentors folder

Question 33

A simple sentence is...

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an independent clause by itself

Question 34

Anecdote is a reference to something historical/famous

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False

Question 35

What rhetorical device? "If we don’t like his routine, the message is, we are the problem, not him."

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Antithesis

Question 36

Antithesis? "I found that all of these problems had been foreseen, yet Trump’s top officials went ahead anyway"

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True

Question 37

What rhetorical choice should I use if there are multiple I see in the same sentence?

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whichever one I can analyze the best

Question 38

Anaphora can repeat any word in any location in a sentence

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False

Question 39

What is allusion?

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referencing

Question 40

Parenthesis can ONLY be done with em dashes

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False

Rhetorical Analysis Refresher

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Rhetorical Analysis Refresher

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