Rhetorical Devices

language that appeals to your senses...

• allusion

• parallelism

• concrete

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

repetition of consonant sounds.

• onomatapoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

• concrete

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

giving human qualities to an inanimate object...

• parallelism

• concrete

• audience contact

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

combining differing ideas in the same sentence; also opposites...

• personification

• contrast

• onomatopoeia

• climax ordering

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

restating words and phrases for emphasis...

• climax ordering

• alliteration

• parallelism

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

language that includes your listeners and conveys your respect to them...

• audience contact

• climax ordering

• parallelism

• concrete

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter...

• climax ordering

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

presenting specific details in order of increasing importance...

• contrast

• climax ordering

• parallelism

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event...

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• audience contact

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

use of words that sound like the thing they stand for...

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4