Duplicate of Pre and Post Test Rhetorical Appeals & Devices

Question 1

Using comparison words to liken two things that seem to have little or nothing in common

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Simile

Question 2

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

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Hyperbole

Question 3

When a nonhuman thing is given human qualities or traits

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Personification

Question 4

The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words

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Alliteration

Question 5

Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Oxymoron

Question 6

Language that appeals to the senses

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Imagery

Question 7

Comparison between two unlike things defining one in terms of the other

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Metaphor

Question 8

A word that sounds like the word it describes

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Onomatopoeia

Question 9

Something represents something else. It stands for something more than itself.

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Symbol

Question 10

A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from literature, history, etc.

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Allusion

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