Rhetorical devices
People, Places, and Events
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
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a question to which no answer is expected
What is a rhetorical question?
100
the place where delegates from the colonies met in 1775
What is Virginia?
100
the antonym to war
What is peace?
100
an adjective that means 'having a lot of courage'
What is brave?
100
a large group of ships
What is a fleet?
200
repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis
What is repetition?
200
a famous speaker at the Virginia Convention
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
an antonym to brave
What is coward(ly)?
200
a noun that means 'the way a speaker talks to the audience'
What is tone?
200
an adjective that means unbeatable
What is invincible?
300
a kind of repetition in which words or phrases in the same grammatical form connect ideas
What is parallelism?
300
the country from which the colonies wanted to gain independence
What is Great Britain?
300
a synonym for freedom
What is liberty?
300
the tone of Patrick Henry's speech
What is passionate?
300
a person sent to represent a group
What is a delegate?
400
a reference to events, figures, or phrases from the Bible
What is biblical allusion?
400
a city in Massachusetts where the famous Tea Party took place
What is Boston?
400
a noun that means 'the reason for doing something'
What is purpose?
400
an adjective that means watchful or alert
What is vigilant?
400
an adjective that means 'warlike'
What is martial?
500
expressing contrasting ideas by using parallel grammatical structures
What is antithesis?
500
an event that showed how bad the tension was between the colonies and Great Britain
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
a gerund that describes the sound chains make
What is clanking?
500
the antonym to freedom
What is slavery?
500
a synonym for 'difficult fight'
What is a struggle?
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