Rhetorical Device Examples

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

• rhetorical question

• logos

• metaphor

• anaphora

And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.

• parallelism

• repetition

• antithesis

• alliteration

What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another. - RFK

• repetition

• allusion

• antithesis

• metaphor

"To think on death it is a misery,

To think on life it is a vanity;

to think on the world verily it is,

to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• simile

When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, “Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” he’s using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you?

• rhetorical question

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

"Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends.”

• simile

• anaphora

• personification

• repetition

What is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing called?

• argument

• claim

• rhetoric

• thesis

“The quiz was a breeze” is an example of what rhetorical device?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• rhetorical question

The sentence structure in the sentence,“Of the people, by the people, for the people,” is an example of which rhetorical device?

• parallelism

• personification

• repetition

• oxymoron

"Life is but a walking shadow..." This is an example of a...

• simile

• metaphor

• anecdote