Rhetorical devices

“All the people were moving in the same direction; all the people were thinking about the same thing; and all the people were discussing the same topic.”

• alliteration

• antithesis

• anaphora

• analogy

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The curtain of night fell upon us."

• metonymy

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am dying of shame.

• Understatement

• analogy

• hyperbole

• imagery

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

You are not as young as you used to be.

• understatement

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• litotes

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

‘I know what you’re going to say’ … ‘That if they look at it properly they’ll see that it wasn’t our fault. But will they look at it properly? Of course they won’t. You know what cats they are …’ “

• rhetorical question

• procatalepsis

• hypophora

• parrallel structure

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

• litotes

• antithesis

• analogy

• allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The millionaire surely had Midas's touch.

• epigraph

• epigram

• exemplum

• eponym

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"Fair is foul and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air."

• alliteration

• antithesis

• analogy

• parallelism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

• allusion

• sententia

• exemplum

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

• antithesis

• anaphora

• repetition

• anadiplosis

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4