Rhetorical Devices and Figurative Language in a Speech - Quiz Quiz Answers

Which statement is an example of synecdoche?

Read the quotation from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. Which rhetorical device is used in the quotation?

Read the quotation from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. Which idea does the use of alliteration emphasize in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. At the moment I first saw him, he was being handcuffed and shoved into a police truck. He had dared to claim his rights as a native son, and had been arrested. He displayed no fear, but seemed calm and serene, unaware of his own extraordinary courage. His whole body, like his conscience, was at peace. What is the effect of the pathos in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. If it is true that land does not belong to anyone until they have buried a body in it, then the land of my birthplace belongs to me, dozens of times over. Yet the history of my family, like that of all black Southerners, is a history of dispossession. We loved the land and worked the land, but we never owned it; and even if we bought land, as my great-grandfather did after the Civil War, it was always in danger of being taken away, as his was, during the period following Reconstruction. Which sentence explains how the use of ethos affects the meaning of the text?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. He was The One, The Hero, The One Fearless Person for whom we had waited. I hadn’t even realized before that we had been waiting for Martin Luther King, Jr., but we had. And I knew it for sure when my mother added his name to the list of people she prayed for every night. I sometimes think that it was literally the prayers of people like my mother and father, who had bowed down in the struggle for such a long time, that kept Dr. King alive until five years ago. For years we went to bed praying for his life, and awoke with the question "Is the ‘Lord’ still here?” What is emphasized by the hyperbole in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. But add to all of these things the one thing that seems to me second to none in importance: He gave us back our heritage. He gave us back our homeland; the bones and dust of our ancestors, who may now sleep within our caring and our hearing. He gave us the blueness of the Georgia sky in autumn as in summer; the colors of the Southern winter as well as glimpses of the green of vacation-time spring. Those of our relatives we used to invite for a visit we now can ask to stay. . . . He gave us full-time use of our own woods, and restored our memories to those of us who were forced to run away, as realities we might each day enjoy and leave for our children. What does Walker emphasize with the metaphor in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. He gave us continuity of place, without which community is ephemeral. He gave us home. What does Walker emphasize with the alliteration in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by Alice Walker. We loved the land and worked the land, but we never owned it; and even if we bought land, as my great-grandfather did after the Civil War, it was always in danger of being taken away, as his was, during the period following Reconstruction. Which rhetorical device does the author use in this excerpt?