Rhetorical Appeals & Devices

Front

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Back

Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

Back

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Back

Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Front

an over exaggeration

Back

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Back

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Back

Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Front

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Back

Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Back

Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions (most typically "and")

Back

Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

The direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Back

Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5