Rhetorical Devices

"Clattering Cauldrons" is an example of...

• Synecdoche
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Anaphora is best described as...

• Having the first letter of consecutive words be the same
• repetition of word in same sentence with multiple inflectional endings
• comparison of diverse or contradictory things
• repetition of a word at beginning of successive phrases for emphasis

"Contrast by a reverse parallelism" is known as...

• Dinumeration
• Erotesis
• Chiasmus
• Macrology

"Jumbo Shrimp" is an example of a...

• Oxymoron
• Cephalopod
• Mesozeugma
• Paroemia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Synecdoche is when you...

• Use a word figuratively to refer to a closely related object
• Start a statement with several words starting with the same letter
• Use the part to refer to the whole (or vice versa)
• Compare two things rhetorically to one another

"With the speed of a cheetah, the man sprinted past me" is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Trope
• Simile
• Euphimism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"A gradual increase in force of rhetorical expressions or in the drama of a performance"

• Aposiopesis
• Epilogue
• Heterosis
• Climax

A simile is...

• The separation of a word into parts by an intervening word
• The comparison of two things, using a linking word or phrase
• The use of elevated style to discuss a trivial matter
• The use of a word to modify two or more words in different ways

"Turn the lights down now
Now I take you by the hand
Hand you another drink
Drink it if you can"
is an example of...

• Echolalia
• Gemination
• Symploce
• Ploce

"A contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words or clauses" describes...

• Asteism
• Noema
• Paralipsis
• Antithesis