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Rhetorical devices

R. Nadine

Created on November 1, 2021

Quiz for a couple of rhetorical devices used in speeches and/ or poems.

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Rhetorical devices

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"Love is like a flower, it must flower and fade." (D.H. Lawrence, The Mess of Love)

Personification

Simile

Oxymoron

right answer

A simile is an explicit comparison through the words "as" or "like".

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A "repetition" is used...

to appeal to the listeners/ readers emotions

to involve the listeners/ readers

to stress/ to put emphasis on/ to emphasize/ to draw attention to... key words/ major arguments/ important aspects

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A repetition is used to stress/ to put emphasis on/ to emphasize/ to draw attention to... key words/ major arguments/ important aspects and to increase intensity. For example: "He was my North, my South, my East and my West, my working week and my Sunday rest." (W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues)

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"If we learn to shout, if we learn to fight, if we learn to die for our goals..."

Rhyme

Anaphora

Alliteration

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An anaphora is a repetition of the same word(s) in neighbouring stanzas, lines etc. ususally at the beginning.

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Two seemingly unlike things are linked with one another in the form of an implicit comparison. The rhetorical device is called...

Metaphor

Symbol

Simile

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A metaphor is a comparison between two things which are basically quite different, without using "like" or "as". For example: "Pupils feel trapped in a cage of duties."

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Which of the following is a personification?

She walks like an angel.

"All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players." (Shakespeare)

Justice is blind.

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