Rhetorical Devices

a reference to a famous person, a historical even, or a well-known piece of literature

• analogy

• anaphora

• allusion

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

when the first word (or words) and the last word (or words) are repeated in a series of phrases, sentences, or clauses

• antithesis

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• symploce

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

using exaggeration

• parallelsim

• analogy

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a new way of understanding a novel meaning and opposed to common sense yet perhaps that is true

• paradox

• parallelism

• analogy

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• symploce

• hyperbole

• simile

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The opposite of what you say or the opposite of an object; contrasting opposing ideas in the same sentence

• paradox

• antithesis

• parallelsim

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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

• simile

• paradox

• antithesis

• parallelsim

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a kind of metaphor or long simile in which an explicit comparison is made between two things.

• hyperbole

• antithesis

• symploce

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

when the first word (or words) are repeated in a series of phrases, sentences, or clauses

• symploce

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

when the last word (or words) are repeated at the end of a series of phrases, sentences, or clauses

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• symploce

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4