Repetition
Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or verses.
Anaphora
Appeal to logic
to + a verb = what?
Infinitive
Which rhetorical device is this?
Mr. Lucas is like Paul Bunion.
Which rhetorical device is this?
Are you happy?
Rhetorical question
This is an example of which rhetorical device?
Dreams can come true, hopes can come true, desires can come true.
Epistrophe
What rhetorical appeal is this?
Driving is dangerous. I recently got into an accident and woke up passed out in the middle of the road. When I woke up my sister was crying and my cousin was getting rushed to the hospital.
Appeal to Pathos
Is this syntactically parallel?
I love my dog, my cat, and my fish.
Yes
Which rhetorical device is this?
Eyes are the window to the soul.
Metaphor
Which rhetorical device is this?
Cute, you are.
Anastrophe
This is an example of which rhetorical device?
Oceans or other big bodies of water only offer so much.
Assonance
Which appeal helps proves that the author is trustworthy?
Ethos
Gerund
A pair of statements or images in which the one reverses the other.
Antithesis
Which rhetorical device references to something else?
Allusion
Croutons crunch, crumble, and cook.
Consonance
Which appeal is this?
A lot of foods have the same chemical reaction as drugs. For example, cheese releases high levels of dopamine just like cocaine.
What is missing in this sentence?
Dying is scary, living is also scary.
A conjunction
"To err is human; to forgive is divine."
Antithesis
What is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed?
Anastrophe
What rhetorical device is this?
Two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry that share the same beginning consonant sound.
Alliteration
Which appeal is this?
Teaching is one of the most difficult jobs. I would know, I've been teaching for 250 years.
Ethos
Which word is missing to make this sentence parallel?
This week I need to cash a check, run to the grocery story, and read my book.
to
Which two rhetorical devices are present in this example?
The sun smiled like little kids on Christmas morning.
Personification and simile
Which rhetorical device is this?
The bones crunched in his mouth as the blood splattered on the white walls.
Imagery