Didactic Devices

Come one! Come all! Come see if you know some didactic devices! Rhetorical devices are everywhere today: in magazine advertisements and on television, but do you know how to spot one out, and what type of effect they have? Take the quiz and see how much you know about these dazzling devices!

Soon enough you will find out whether you're just as smart as a drop out or a genius. It's up to you! While the results of this quiz do not determine intelligence, they may give you a good approximation of English comprehension.

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. "Love and hate" is an example of:
synecdoche
anaphora
antithesis
metonymy
4. What do you call the device that is symbolic of a "part for a whole"?
Antistrophe
Synecdoche
Syntax
Polyptoton
5. Interlocking word order is known as:
Synchesis
Chiasmus
Antistrophe
Parallelism
6. The "father son and the son father" is an example of:
understatement
anacoluthon
zeugma
antistrophe
7. A common form of litotes is:
Understatement
Anthithesis
Meiosis
Polysyndeton
8. An example of litotes is:
war and peace
not false
I like cake, cookies, icecream, brownies
acorn for oak tree
9. An example of a similie might be:
The lion was a raging fire.
If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.
Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.
The Coke bottle emerged like a volcano.
10. If an advertisement asked a question, and then proceeded to answer that question, what type of rhetorical device are they using on you?
Hypophora
Anadiplosis
Zeugma
Enthymeme
11. The use of superfluous conjunctions is referred to as:
Chiasmus
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Litotes
12. What do we call a grammatically correct linkage of 2 or more parts of speech by another part of speech?
Metonymy
Malapropism
Parallelism
Zeugma

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