Pre-assessment Rhetorical Devices - Period 1

Parallelism

• Last words of a phrase repeated at the beginning of the next phrase.
• The similarity of the structure of words in successive phrases.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a piece of literature appeals to your mind and explains things to you logically, it is using its...

•  ethos
• pathos
•  mental
•  logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

When an advertisement appeals to your feelings, and not to your logic, it is an example of....

• insanity
• pathos
•  ethos
•  logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which is an example of ethos?

•  Send us money or you're killing children in Africa!
• We've been doing business for 200 years.
• Our planes are designed with speed in mind; they can travel at the SPEED OF LIGHT!

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.

• simile
• anecdote
• metaphor
• rhetorical question

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to make a point

• parallelism
• anecdote
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• oxymoron
• metaphor
• allusion
• anecdote

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Phrases of sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other.

• anecdote
• parallelism
• oxymoron
• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

giving life-like qualities to things that are not alive (the trees danced in the wind)

• metaphor
• parallelism
• call to action
• personification

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a reference in literature, or in visual or performing arts, to a familiar person, place, thing or event

• metaphor
• allusion
• alliteration
• oxymoron

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4