Question

Match each example with the correct rhetorical technique.
allusion
anaphora
Hypophora
rhetorical question
Choices
1) "Cookies are my Achilles' heel."
2) What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek?"
3) How many of us could run a marathon?
4) Give me liberty, or give me death

Answer 1

1) allusion — "Achilles' heel" refers to Greek myth.
2) hypophora — the speaker asks questions ("What kind of peace...") and then goes on to answer them.
3) rhetorical question — asks a question not meant to be answered.
4) anaphora — repeats "Give me" at the start of successive clauses.