Rhetorical Devices

(n.) the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words

• Antithesis
• Colloquialism
• Diction
• Hyperbole

(n.) reason or intellect; in the context of an appeal to the mind or understanding

• Logos
• Metaphor
• Paradox
• Parallelism

(n.) the fact of being similar in development or form

• Mood
• Narrative
• Paradox
• Parallelism

(n.) a feeling or attitude expressed by the words that someone uses in speaking or writing

• Subject
• Syntax
• Tone
• Trope

(n.) a quality or writing or speaking that evokes pity or sadness

• Passive Voice
• Pathos
• Redundancy
• Refutation

(n.) the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively, especially as a way to persuade or influence people

• Refutation
• Rhetoric
• Simile
• Subject

Identify the rhetorical device in the following quote from Brutus's funeral speech:
"Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" (III.ii.24-26)

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhetorical question

Clauses that may begin each phrase of a piece the same(ex: Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts)

• Antithesis
• Parallelism
• Allusion
• Rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

Two opposite ideas in the same sentence (ie "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...")

• Allusion
• Rhetorical Question
• Loaded language
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A question used for effect rather than response (ex: Sure! Why not?)

• Rhetorical question
• Parallelism
• Antithesis
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3