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Rhetorical devices of syntax

11th grade (Year 12 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: RI.11-12.6, L.11-12.3.A · England: AP Language, GCSE English Language Paper 2 Q3, A-level English Language

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  1. Question 1

    Which rhetorical device matches this description? Placing contrasting ideas side by side in balanced phrases.

    • A. anaphora
    • B. chiasmus
    • C. litotes
    • D. antithesis

The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  1. Question 2

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Which device sets 'what we say' against 'what they did'?

    • A. antithesis
    • B. onomatopoeia
    • C. anaphora
    • D. metonymy

  2. Question 3

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "We can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground" repeats 'we can not' at the start of each phrase. What is this device called?

    • A. chiasmus
    • B. asyndeton
    • C. anaphora
    • D. litotes

  1. Question 4

    Type the rhetorical device (in English) that matches this description. Using many conjunctions in a row, to slow down or pile up items.

    Answer

  2. Question 5

    Which rhetorical device is used here? Every child deserves a safe home; every child deserves a good school; every child deserves a future.

    • A. chiasmus
    • B. anaphora
    • C. litotes
    • D. polysyndeton

  3. Question 6

    Which rhetorical device matches this description? Understatement that expresses an idea by denying its opposite.

    • A. polysyndeton
    • B. asyndeton
    • C. epistrophe
    • D. litotes

The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  1. Question 7

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Which device sets 'what we say' against 'what they did'?

    • A. antithesis
    • B. metonymy
    • C. anaphora
    • D. onomatopoeia

  2. Question 8

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "We can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground" repeats 'we can not' at the start of each phrase. What is this device called?

    • A. asyndeton
    • B. litotes
    • C. chiasmus
    • D. anaphora

  1. Question 9

    Type the rhetorical device (in English) that matches this description. Using many conjunctions in a row, to slow down or pile up items.

    Answer

  2. Question 10

    Which rhetorical device is used here? We were poor in money but rich in friendship.

    • A. antithesis
    • B. asyndeton
    • C. epistrophe
    • D. anaphora

  3. Question 11

    Which rhetorical device matches this description? Repeating the same word or phrase at the END of successive clauses.

    • A. chiasmus
    • B. anaphora
    • C. antithesis
    • D. epistrophe

The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  1. Question 12

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Which device sets 'what we say' against 'what they did'?

    • A. anaphora
    • B. antithesis
    • C. metonymy
    • D. onomatopoeia

  2. Question 13

    Read "The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln, 1863)". "We can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground" repeats 'we can not' at the start of each phrase. What is this device called?

    • A. chiasmus
    • B. asyndeton
    • C. anaphora
    • D. litotes

  1. Question 14

    Type the rhetorical device (in English) that matches this description. Using many conjunctions in a row, to slow down or pile up items.

    Answer

  2. Question 15

    Which rhetorical device is used here? We will rebuild the library. We will reopen the pool. We will restore the park.

    • A. asyndeton
    • B. anaphora
    • C. litotes
    • D. polysyndeton

  3. Question 16

    Which rhetorical device matches this description? Repeating the same word or phrase at the END of successive clauses.

    • A. epistrophe
    • B. litotes
    • C. anaphora
    • D. asyndeton

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  1. antithesis
  2. antithesis
  3. anaphora
  4. polysyndeton
  5. anaphora
  6. litotes
  7. antithesis
  8. anaphora
  9. polysyndeton
  10. antithesis
  11. epistrophe
  12. antithesis
  13. anaphora
  14. polysyndeton
  15. anaphora
  16. epistrophe