Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

What is alliteration? What is an example of alliteration?

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Recurrence of initial consonant sounds.Suddenly, tragedy travelled through our trivial life.

Question 2

What is allusion? What is an example of allusion?

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Short reference to a famous person, event or story.You’re acting like such a Scrooge.

Question 3

What is amplification? What is an example of amplification?

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Repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it.Adventure. My life is an adventure. My life is an adventure similar to the one of Tom Sawyer.

Question 4

What is anaphora? What is an example of anaphora?

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Repetition of the same words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.Love is the question.Love is the answer.Love is everything.

Question 5

What is an anecdote? What is an example of an anecdote?

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A short (usually personal) account of something that has happened.Many years ago, I found myself in a similar situation. It was Autumn …

Question 6

What is antithesis? What is an example of antithesis?

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Contrasting relationships between two ideas.I was the right fish in the wrong pond.

Question 7

What is a comparative? What is an example of a comparative?

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An adjective or adverb which shows that something has more of a quality than something else has.Stronger, faster, louder …

Question 8

What is direct address? What is an example of direct address?

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Communicating a message to the reader/audience in a direct fashion, using the second person pronoun you.Come and do your bit.

Question 9

What is emotive language? What is an example of emotive language?

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Words and phrases that are used to illicit an emotional response from the reader/audience.Threats have become a reality.

Question 10

What is an eponym? What is an example of an eponym?

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Substituting for a particular attribute the name a person.Is she smart? That girl is a real Einstein.

Question 11

What is ethos? What is an example of ethos?

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Appealing to the reader/audience relying on trustworthiness and credibility.Most professional dentists recommend …

Question 12

What are facts and statistics? What is an example of facts and statistics?

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Information that can be substantiated and verified.The average size of vertebrate populations declined by 60 per cent between 1970 and 2014, according to the biennial Living Planet Report.

Question 13

What is a hyperbole? What is an example of a hyperbole?

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Deliberately exaggerating conditions for emphasis or effect.That bag weighed a ton.

Question 14

What are imperatives? What is an example of imperatives?

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A command or request.Give me that book! Do your homework.

Question 15

What is logos? What is an example of logos?

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Appealing to the audience’s sense of logic.If you do not hand in your homework your grades will suffer.

Question 16

What is a metaphor? What is an example of a metaphor?

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Comparing two things by saying that one is the other.All the world’s a stage and all men and women merely players - Shakespeare.

Question 17

What is a modal verb? What is an example of a modal verb?

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An auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility.You must listen carefully.

Question 18

What is an oxymoron? What is an example of an oxymoron?

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Combining contradictory term…. bright smoke, cold fire, sick health - Shakespeare.

Question 19

What is parallelism? What is an example of parallelism?

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Giving two or more parts of as sentence a similar form.What you see is what you get.

Question 20

What is pathos? What is an example of pathos?

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Appealing to the emotions of the reader/audience.If you really care about your children’s future, you’ll vote for me.

Question 21

What is repetition? What is an example of repetition?

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Repeating words and phrases for effect.When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

Question 22

What is a rhetorical question? What is an example of a rhetorical question?

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Asking a question as a way of asserting something.Have you never lied in your life?

Question 23

What is a simile? What is an example of a simile?

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Direct comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’.They fought like lions.

Question 24

What is a superlative? What is an example of a superlative?

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The superlative form of an adjective or adverb indicates that something has more a quality than something else in the group.Smallest, fastest …

Question 25

What is triadic structure? What is an example of triadic structure?

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Using a list which con twins three words/ideas.She was cold, tired and hungry.