RHETORICAL ANALYSIS QUIZ!!!!

Question 1

What is the rhetorical device in which the repetition of a vowel is written in non-rhyming lines to create an echo?

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 2

Which example uses an active voice?

Accepted Answer

The reporter interviewed the witness.

Question 3

What is chiasmus?

Accepted Answer

A literary device where the writing is repeated in reverse order

Question 4

Imagery is to ________ as ekphrasis is to _______.

Accepted Answer

Visual description; Literary description

Question 5

What is a rhetorical device which has a repetition of vowel sounds?

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 6

What is a speech delivered by a character alone on stage expressing their inner thoughts and feelings?

Accepted Answer

Soliloquy

Question 7

“The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains” is an example of ________.

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 8

Incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning 'runs over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation.

Accepted Answer

Enjambment

Question 9

Ellipses is defined as:

Accepted Answer

A pause or something left out intentionally

Question 10

“the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence”

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 11

What is a Hypophora?

Accepted Answer

Where a writer raises a question and then immediately answers it.

Question 12

What is the definition of Aphorism?

Accepted Answer

A phrase or saying that is universally true

Question 13

What is the rhetorical device where the text uses suggestions/warnings about events that could occur during the story?

Accepted Answer

Forshadowing

Question 14

What is a rhetorical device that can be used to express inner thoughts?

Accepted Answer

Soliloquy

Question 15

What is the rhetorical device that refers or replaces a word earlier to avoid repetition?

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 16

What percentage of the AP exam is your Rhetorical Analysis Essay worth?

Accepted Answer

18%

Question 17

What is an aphorism?

Accepted Answer

a saying that expresses moral principles about the world as universal truth

Question 18

Denotation is…

Accepted Answer

The dictionary definition of a word

Question 19

Any thesis, regardless of whether it is rhetorical, argumentative, or synthesis must be ___________.

Accepted Answer

defensible

Question 20

What device is used in the following: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."

Accepted Answer

Chiasmus

Question 21

What is the best use of a rhetorical question in an introductory paragraph of a topic?

Accepted Answer

It serves to engage the reader by prompting them to think about the topic

Question 22

What is it referred to when words are combined to create a pleasing sound?

Accepted Answer

Euphony

Question 23

What rhetorical device is used in the phrase? "Love is a battlefield"

Accepted Answer

Metaphor

Question 24

A blend and mix of harsh and inharmonious sounds is called…

Accepted Answer

Cacophony

Question 25

What is a closed thesis?

Accepted Answer

A sentence that clearly identifies the rhetorical choices the author uses

Question 26

What device is this: “briefly and suddenly recall a previous time or incident”

Accepted Answer

Flashback

Question 27

What device places two things side by side in order to highlight their differences?

Accepted Answer

Juxtaposition

Question 28

Which is a dependent clause?

Accepted Answer

Unless it comes today

Question 29

Which rhetorical appeal is this: "I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve...whose worlds have been shattered”

Accepted Answer

Pathos

Question 30

What is rhetorical analysis at its core?

Accepted Answer

Identifying the strategies that an author uses to appeal to an audience

Question 31

In “Catcher in the Rye”, Holden calls people phonies despite putting up an act around them. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Irony

Question 32

What does SOAPS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject

Question 33

What is an example of a euphemism?

Accepted Answer

The car is in great condition, it just has a vintage aesthetic.

Question 34

What is a rhetorical device which gives human attributes to inanimate/unhuman objects?

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 35

The phrase "controlled chaos" is best an example of:

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 36

What element of irony is depicted when a character is deprived of knowledge that the audience is aware of?

Accepted Answer

Dramatic Irony

Question 37

What rhetorical device is used?: "Because I could not stop for Death–He kindly stopped for me..."

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 38

Define a Synecdoche.

Accepted Answer

When a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing in a story

Question 39

"Montag stopped eating… he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house."

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 40

What is the rhetorical device in which a statement repeats the same grammatical form multiple times in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Parallelism

Question 41

A one or two word topic that repeatedly appears throughout a story is called…

Accepted Answer

Motif

Question 42

What is a literary device in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses

Accepted Answer

Asyndeton

Question 43

In Bush’s Address to the Nation, he emphasizes the fear and shock Americans feel after 9/11. This is an example of?

Accepted Answer

Pathos

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