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Self-Descriptive Rhetoric Trivia Quiz

Why write (or speak) in a dull, trite manner? Rhetorical devices can spice up your communications! Try to identify the rhetorical device used in each clue.

A multiple-choice quiz by Tchochkekop. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Tchochkekop

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
318,193

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
845

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Question 1 of 10

1. This clue is the best ever written for Fun Trivia! What rhetorical device does it employ? Hint

Prolepsis

Hyperbole

Synecdoche

Climax

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Question 2 of 10

2. If you know what rhetorical device is used in this clue, fireworks will boom, drums will bang, and flutes will toot for you! Hint

Imagery

Laudation

Runction

Onomatopoeia

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Question 3 of 10

3. Dress in your best threads, hop in your wheels, and get your prize if you know what rhetorical device is used here. Hint

Synecdoche

Partition

Simile

Metaphoration

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Question 4 of 10

4. The pleasure for knowing this rhetorical device is balm for your soul. Hint

Hyperbole

Litotes

Archaism

Metaphor

5. This extremely and overly interesting, nay, fascinating, clue can help you, the player, the one seeking fame, to achieve over a dozen - fifteen, to be exact - more, additional, and added Fun Trivia points. Hint

Hyperbole

Pleonasm

Exaggeration

Hyperglotism

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Question 6 of 10

6. Figure out this rhetorical device and you'll win family fame, world-wide respect, and universal admiration. Hint

Climax

Tautology

Antithesis

Hyperechtode

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Question 7 of 10

7. Those who know this rhetorical device are like rulers in the wonderful wide world of words. Hint

Antistrophe

Tautology

Apostrophe

Simile

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Question 8 of 10

8. Proper use of rhetoric, valued reader, can make your prose so much more interesting! Hint

Antistrophe

Hyperbole

Simile

Apostrophe

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Question 9 of 10

9. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Please pick the proper rhetorical term presented here. Hint

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Litotes

Onomatopoeia

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Question 10 of 10

10. If it is to be interesting, incline yourself to include inventive rhetorical structures. Hint

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Climax

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This clue is the best ever written for Fun Trivia! What rhetorical device does it employ?

Answer: Hyperbole

Hyperbole is gross exaggeration used for emphasis.

2. If you know what rhetorical device is used in this clue, fireworks will boom, drums will bang, and flutes will toot for you!

Answer: Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeic words are formed from the sounds they make. English is not the only language that has them. In Hebrew, a "fly" is a "zvuv", and a "bottle" is a "bakbuk" (think of the sound of water pouring out of a bottle).

3. Dress in your best threads, hop in your wheels, and get your prize if you know what rhetorical device is used here.

Answer: Synecdoche

Synecdoche is the substitution of part of an object to represent the whole.

4. The pleasure for knowing this rhetorical device is balm for your soul.

Answer: Metaphor

A metaphor is a comparison using figurative, rather than literal language.

Answer: Pleonasm

Pleonasm is the use of extra, superfluous, or unneeded words for effect (or just to sound high falutin').

6. Figure out this rhetorical device and you'll win family fame, world-wide respect, and universal admiration.

Answer: Climax

In rhetoric, "climax" is the use of increasingly important or expansive phrases.

7. Those who know this rhetorical device are like rulers in the wonderful wide world of words.

Answer: Simile

A simile is a comparison that (almost always) uses "like" or "as". By the way, this clue also uses alliteration.

8. Proper use of rhetoric, valued reader, can make your prose so much more interesting!

Answer: Apostrophe

Apostrophe is the interruption of a sentence in order to address a specific individual or group.

9. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Please pick the proper rhetorical term presented here.

Answer: Alliteration

Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.

10. If it is to be interesting, incline yourself to include inventive rhetorical structures.

Answer: Assonance

Whereas alliteration is repeated use of initial consonant sounds, assonance is repeated use of vowel sounds.

Source: Author Tchochkekop

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