Songs
Rhetorical Devices
True or False
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Definition
100

In the song "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus uses what figurative language in this verse. 

"I came in like a wrecking ball"

What is a Simile

100


What is Repetition or what is Anaphora Repetition

100

She  like the way that I dance
She like the way that I move
She like the way that I rock
She like the way that I woo

Pop smoke uses parallel structure and repetition 

What is true. 

100

Imagery uses what senses

What are the 5 senses: touch, smell, sight, hear, taste

100

A direct comparison that contains like or as

What is a Simile

200

What Figurative Language is used in this Katy Perry verse?

Cause baby you're a firework

What is a metaphor?

200

That would be as difficult as finding a needle in a hay stack

What is an Analogy

200

A connotation is an emotional association

What is true

200

Who is Johnathan Lyndale Kirk

Who is Dababy

200

Describe one thing as if it were another

What is metaphor

300

I can feel your halo halo halo, I can see your halo halo halo 

I can feel your halo halo halo, I can see your halo halo halo 

Beyonce uses what figurative language

what is Repetition?

300

Mother:Would you like $500?

Child:Can fish swim?

What is rhetorical Question

300

The wind whispered in my ear

is a form of a metaphor

What is False

300

Florida A&M University was founded 

What is October 3rd, 1887

What is 1887

300

Assigns human characteristics to a non- human subject

What is personification

400

In this verse "Boy you got my heatbeat running away, Beating like a drum and it's coming your way .." 

Nicki Minaj uses what figure of speech

What is Personification

400

We won't give up quitting is not an option. 

What is Restatement

400

I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. - Barack Obama

Is a form of Parallel structure. 

What is true 

400

colors that make orange

What is red and yellow

400

A writing or a speech that is not meant to be interpreted literally

What is figurative language

500


 

What is a Rhetorical Question

500

 it's time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first see that we have the same problem, a common problem, a problem that will make you catch hell whether you're a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Muslim, or a nationalist. - Malcolm X

What is Parallel Structure

500

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound- Benjamin Franklin

This is a form of Antanaclasis

What is true

500

I sound so cool and people all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me but you can’t be too old or young to come see me, unless you decide to make me part of your career? I am able to make you smarter and wealthier too. What am I?

What is School

500

The author's attitude toward his or her subject and audience

What is tone