Rhetorical Choices Practice #1

"Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you..." is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You're a shooting star I see, a vision of ecstasy

When you hold me, I'm alive" is an example of...

• synecdoche

• repetition

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"Now watch me whip (Kill it!) Now watch me nae nae (Okay!) Now watch me whip whip Now watch me nae nae (Can you do it?)" is an example of...

• alliteration

• anaphora

• imagery

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?" is an example of...

• epistrophe

• hyperbole

• simile

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Anyway, I think I met him sometime before In a different life or where I record I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve But my vision ends with the apple on the tree" is an example of...

• consonance

• allusion

• alliteration

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

‘Cause you’re hot then your cold You’re yes then you’re no You’re in then you’re out You’re up then you’re down You’re wrong when it’s right" is an example of...

• antithesis

• repetition

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"I see trees of green, red roses too

I seem them bloom, for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world"

• epistrophe

• metaphor

• simile

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You're the light, you're the night

You're the color of my blood

You're the cure, you're the pain" is an example of...

• personification

• epistrophe

• allusion

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"That's why Rosa sat on the bus

That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up" is an example of...

• synecdoche

• consonance

• allusion

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"I don't wanna steal your freedom

I don't wanna change your mind

I don't have to make you love me

I just wanna take your time"

is an example of...

• consonance

• imagery

• anaphora

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4