Figurative Devices
Rhetorical Strategies
Classifying Figurative and Rhetorical Devices
Grammar Check
Classifying Parts of Sentences
100
A comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
Appeal to the audience's emotions or feelings.
What is pathos?
100
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is an exampled of alliteration?
100
"The ball flew upwards the ball was caught" is this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
This person is the subject of the sentence, "John likes cake."
Who is "John".
200
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Appeal of the audience to the credibility or character of the speaker.
What is ethos?
200
"That dog is a giant!"
What is an example of a metaphor?
200
The sentence, "When riding his bike, Joe always wears a helmet," is in this voice.
What is the active voice?
200
This phrase is the dependent clause in the sentence, "Because I woke up late, I missed my appointment."
What is "because I woke up late"?
300
Human-like attributes given to inanimate or non-human objects.
What is personification?
300
A technique in which an opposing argument's claims are stated and refuted.
What is a rebuttal?
300
"Mike, a traffic cop, just got his driver's license suspended because he forgot to pay his parking tickets."
What is an example of irony?
300
"Since" is classified as this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
300
The words "a basketball coach" are this type of phrase in the sentence, "Ms. Jones, a basketball coach, is often seen with a basketball in her hands."
What is an appositive phrase?
400
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or an object or person of historical or cultural importance.
What is allusion?
400
A suggestion that large numbers of support for something gives it increased credibility.
What is bandwagon?
400
"Ellen likes hiking, attending the rodeo, and taking afternoon naps."
What is an example of parallel structure?
400
This type of punctuation would be placed between the phrases "our goal was to run five miles" and "we only ran two" to make a complete sentence?
What is a semicolon?
400
The sentence, "I forgot to submit the reference page when I handed in my paper," is this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
500
A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
500
The use of similar forms or patterns for phrases.
What is parallel structure?
500
"Of course I cannot do that; I'm not Superman!"
What is an example of allusion?
500
This possessive word should replace the blank, when speaking to multiple people, in the sentence, "____ shoes are these?"
What is "whose"?
500
The words "to work" are an example of this type of phrase.
What is a prepositional phrase?
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