2.1.4 Rhetorical Devices

The sun smiled and stretched as she awoke this morning.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Are you kidding me?

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The birds chirped this morning and there was a pearly white mist over the lake.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The flower was as blue as the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Someone saying "What nice weather we are having" in the middle of a thunderstorm.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Give me loyalty, or give me death.

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

If it rains anymore, we will have to build an arc.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The thief's heart was as cold as stone.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The apples tasted so good, I ate a million of them for lunch.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A