Rhetorical Devices

The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• A. Alliteration 
• B.   Metaphor  
• C. Rhetorical 
• D. Allusion 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A.Simile
• B.Invective
• C. Alliteration
• D. Analogy

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Understatement 
• B. D. Simile 
• C. Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is? 

• A. Understatement/Meiosis
   
• B. Personification
• C.Paralellism

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

• A. Paradox
• B. Juxtaposition 
• E. Satire 

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Paradox
• B. 
  B. Hyperbole 
• C. Satire 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?                                    

• A. Alliteration 
• B. Allusion
• C. Anaphora

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

*Great Depression
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
 *Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful

• A. anecdote
• B. Paradox
• C. Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Imagery 
• B. Personification 
• C. Rhetoric 
• E. Rhetorical Question 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum

• A. Exemplum
• B. Hyperbole
• C. Anaphora

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4