Identifying Rhetorical Devices

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

• Paradox
• Analogy 
• Anaphora
• Personification

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
-Yoda, "Star Wars"

• Paradox
• Anadiplosis 
• Antithesis
• Metaphor

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

• Parallelism 
• Rhetorical fragment
• Simile
• Antithesis

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
All’s fair in love and war. 

• Metaphor 
• Analogy
• Rhetorical question
• Juxtaposition

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
Anger is a monster waiting to devour happiness.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Anaphora 

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Bill is a cheerful pessimist.

• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Metaphor

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current.

• Irony
• Paradox
• Rhetorical question
• Juxtaposition 

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
The fog crept through doorways and keyholes.

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
Jack is like a squirrel

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Juxtaposition
• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The following the an example of which type of rhetorical device?
Do you think you should study these terms some more?

• Rhetorical Question
• Personification
• Hypophora
• Paradox