How Well do you Know Your Rhetorical Devices?

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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. What type of figure of speech is a metonymy?
word for part of something means the whole
repetition of the same words
misuse of a word through confusion of another word that sounds similar
passionate strongly worded argument
attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself
4. A syllogism has which of the following parts?
major premise
minor premise
conclusion
all of the above
none of the above
5. Which of the following is an example of a synecdoche?
"cupid" for love
the father son and the son father
"iron" for sword
night and day
Heat waves are not rare in the summer
6. An asyndeton is most unlike which of the following?
antistrophe
polysyndeton
zeugma
antithesis
understatement
7. A zeugma is a figure of speech which involves the:
superfluity of conjunctions
repetition of the same or similar sounds
understatement
linkage of two or more parts of speech
finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure with which it began
8. An antistrophe is:
the repetition of words in reverse order
contrasting relationship between two ideas
a syllogism in which one of the premises is not stated explicity
deliberate repetition of particular words or sentence structures
indication of what the speaker feels
9. Diction is:
details
syntax
tone
choice of words
polemics
10. What is an example of a litotes?
heat waves are not rare in the summer
The father son and the son father
If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit
I laughed and played and talked and flunked.
The few, the proud, the marines
11. All of the following are examples of parallelism except:
I went to bed, I slept, and I woke up.
I went to bed, I was sleeping, and I am waking up.
I slept, I woke up, and I ate breakfast.
I will sleep, I will wake up, and I will eat breakfast.
I want to go to bed, sleep, and then wake up.
12. A polemic could be all of the following except:
passionate
strongly worded
controversial
argumentative
indifferent

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. What type of figure of speech is a metonymy?

word for part of something means the whole

repetition of the same words

misuse of a word through confusion of another word that sounds similar

passionate strongly worded argument

attribute of something is used to stand for the thing itself

4. A syllogism has which of the following parts?

major premise

minor premise

conclusion

all of the above

none of the above

5. Which of the following is an example of a synecdoche?

"cupid" for love

the father son and the son father

"iron" for sword

night and day

Heat waves are not rare in the summer

6. An asyndeton is most unlike which of the following?

antistrophe

polysyndeton

zeugma

antithesis

understatement

7. A zeugma is a figure of speech which involves the:

superfluity of conjunctions

repetition of the same or similar sounds

understatement

linkage of two or more parts of speech

finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure with which it began

8. An antistrophe is:

the repetition of words in reverse order

contrasting relationship between two ideas

a syllogism in which one of the premises is not stated explicity

deliberate repetition of particular words or sentence structures

indication of what the speaker feels

9. Diction is:

details

syntax

tone

choice of words

polemics

10. What is an example of a litotes?

heat waves are not rare in the summer

The father son and the son father

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit

I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

The few, the proud, the marines

11. All of the following are examples of parallelism except:

I went to bed, I slept, and I woke up.

I went to bed, I was sleeping, and I am waking up.

I slept, I woke up, and I ate breakfast.

I will sleep, I will wake up, and I will eat breakfast.

I want to go to bed, sleep, and then wake up.

12. A polemic could be all of the following except:

passionate

strongly worded

controversial

argumentative

indifferent

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