Rhetorical & Literary Devices

Question 1

Identify the literary device that best describes this situation:

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Dramatic Irony

Question 2

The audience knows that Romeo and Juliet will both take their own lives because of what the Chorus says in the prologue.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 3

Which rhetorical device best describes this phrase: "you ain't nothin' but a hound dog."

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Metaphor

Question 4

Identify the rhetorical device that best describes this situation:

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Hyperbole

Question 5

"The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, /Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light" (II.ii.188-9).

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Imagery

Question 6

If I were to refer to a character’s weakness as their “Achilles heel”, which literary device would I be employing?

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Allusion

Question 7

When Gatsby is anxious about meeting Daisy, the weather is rainy and miserable.

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Pathetic Fallacy

Question 8

Identify the rhetorical device: The cedar trees have sung their vesper hymn, And now the music sleeps

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Personification

Question 9

“Is love a tender thing?...it pricks like thorn" (I.iv.25-6).

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Simile

Question 10

"And inside, as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music-rooms and Restoration salons..."

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Allusion

Question 11

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Anaphora

Question 12

Gatsby is first seen reaching for a green light; the colour green is associated with his relationship with Daisy.

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Symbolism

Question 13

Allegory is a type of extended_______.

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Metaphor

Question 14

"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens."

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Imagery

Question 15

Identify the rhetorical device: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

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Alliteration

Question 16

Which literary device is this: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...

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Assonance

Question 17

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Simile

Question 18

"…my mind misgives /Some consequence yet hanging in the stars /Shall bitterly begin his fearful date" (I.iv.106-8).

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Foreshadowing

Question 19

"Animal Farm" is the story of animals on a farm. It is also a cautionary tail about the Russian Revolution.

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Allegory

Question 20

"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate" (I.i.181).

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Oxymoron

Question 21

Identify the rhetorical device: He's choking, how? Everybody's jokin' now. The clock's run out, time's up, over—blaow!

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Onomatopoeia

Question 22

“When well-appareled April on the heel /Of limping winter treads, even such delight” (II.ii.27-8)

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Personification

Question 23

“…That which we call a rose /By any other word would smell as sweet” (II.ii.43-4).

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Analogy

Question 24

"...the green light at the end of Daisy's dock."

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Alliteration

Question 25

Identify the literary device that best describes the cat's dialogue:

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Rhetorical question

Question 26

Identify the literary device: "Go, ask his name. - If he be married, /My grave is like to be my wedding-bed." - Juliet

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Foreshadowing

Question 27

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Alliteration

Question 28

Identify the literary device that best describes this situation:

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Situational Irony

Question 29

Federal agents use "enhanced interrogation techniques" at Guantanamo Bay.

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Euphemism

Question 30

The Great Gatsby functions as a criticism of the American Dream with Gatsby standing in for the everyday American.

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Allegory

Question 31

Identify the rhetorical device: I'm a shooting star, leaping through the sky like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity.

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Metaphor

Question 32

“I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late” (Fitzgerald 140).

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Foreshadowing

Question 33

Which literary device makes use of the five senses to describe things?

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Imagery

Question 34

Identify the rhetorical device: I'm a shooting star, leaping through the sky like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity.

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Simile

Question 35

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Onomatopoeia

Question 36

Identify the literary device: “Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?” said Harry sarcastically.

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Verbal Irony

Question 37

Identify the literary device that best describes this situation:

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Foreshadowing

Question 38

The three types of irony are:

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Verbal, dramatic, and situational

Question 39

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Oxymoron

Question 40

Identify the literary device that best describes this situation:

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Situational Irony

Question 41

“They take [the trees] and use us to make boxes. Nothing is left of us but the screaming stump" (Wilson & McLean 29).

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Personification

Question 42

Identify the rhetorical device that best aligns with the picture below:

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Personification

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