rhetorical device examples

Question 1

to be or to not be; what can your country do for you but ask what can I do for my country

Answer 1

antithesis

Question 2

slang-ya’ll, can’t, ain’t, somethin’

Answer 2

Colloquialism

Question 3

boot, beat, best brag–s, sh ,s ,sh

Answer 3

consonance

Question 4

the early bird gets the worm

Answer 4

aphorism

Question 5

calling out to dead, imaginary, or absent person or place

Answer 5

apostrophe

Question 6

structures of an atom is like a solar system. nucleus is the sun and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun

Answer 6

analogy

Question 7

like father, like son- easy come, easy go- flying is fast, comfortable and safe

Answer 7

parallelism

Question 8

I’m mighty glad Georgia waited until after Christmas before it secedes or it would have ruined the Christmas party

Answer 8

metonymy

Question 9

this blessed pot, this earth, this realm, this England

Answer 9

anaphora

Question 10

if any speak; for him I have offended. who is here so rude that would not be a Rome. if any speak, for I have offended…

Answer 10

epistrophe

Question 11

this is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…

Answer 11

asyndeton

Question 12

and, or, but, nor…

Answer 12

polysyndeton

Question 13

“boot” refers to soldier
“gray beard” refers to old man
“coke” refers to all carbonated drinks

Answer 13

synecdoche

Question 14

first, second, then, finally

Answer 14

process analysis

Question 15

after winning the lottery and saying “I’m delighted”

Answer 15

understatement

Question 16

god helps those who help themselves

Answer 16

adage

Question 17

impossible to read criticism of himself without trying to grab a pen and replying to the effect the accusation is a gross insult to his person

Answer 17

pedantic

Question 18

lack proper respect or seriousness

Answer 18

flippant

Question 19

adjective after a noun “the form divine” verb before its subject “came the dawn”

Answer 19

syntactical inversion

Question 20

“I didn’t have any bus fare, but fortunately some Good Samaritan helped me out!”

“your’e acting like such a Scrooge”

Answer 20

allusion

Question 21

“whether I should turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else these pages must show”

“it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

Answer 21

argumentation

Question 22

Aesop’s Fables

Answer 22

allegory

Question 23

“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”

“better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven”

Answer 23

antithesis

Question 24

“maw maw- grandma”
“bestie- best friend”
“ain’t- am not”

Answer 24

Colloquialism

Question 25

“stench, smell, aroma, scent, odor”

“frugal, economical, stingy, cheap”

Answer 25

connotation

Question 26

“sally sold sea shells by the sea shore”

“Peter piper picked a pell of picker peppers”

Answer 26

consonance

Question 27

“her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me. her ears were smoking, and her hair was on fire.”

“the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Answer 27

caricature

Question 28

“all for one and one for all”

“don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Answer 28

aphorism

Question 29

“twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.”

“Oh! stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as naught; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness”

Answer 29

apostrophe

Question 30

“he is a rotten, dirty, terrible, trudging, stupid dude!”

“Klarissa Klein drives an old, gumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.”

Answer 30

cacophony

Question 31

“Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.”

“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her,
And she balanced in the delight of her thought … “

Answer 31

enumeration

Question 32

“That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”

“Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Answer 32

analogy

Question 33

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”

“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”

Answer 33

parallelism

Question 34

“Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished.”

Answer 34

anecdote

Question 35

“I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.”

“As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his pale, unmoving way, silently acquiesced.”

Answer 35

metonymy

Question 36

“Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!”

“The apartment was on the top floor—a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.”

Answer 36

anaphora

Question 37

“Where now? Who now? When now?”

“The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek — now that, too, was gone …”

Answer 37

epistrophe

Question 38

“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”

“Call up her father.
Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell…”

Answer 38

asyndeton