Rhetorical Terms and Literary Devices

An example of alliteration is...

• Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.

• She looked as innocent as an angel.

• Boom! Bang! Pow!

• The tree danced.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

What would “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her" be an example of?

• Allegory

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sam's mom screamed, "I told you a million times to pick up your room!' What is Sam's mom "using" to get her point across?

• An Allegory

• A Simile

• Imagery

• A Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Choose the sentence that has parallel structure.

• The children laughed, jumped, and danced.

• The children were laughing, jumped, and some were dancing.

The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song. What is being personified?

• The trees

• The chainsaw

• The song

• The lumberjack

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CCSS.L.6.5A

• rhetorical question

• metaphor

• anaphora

• simile

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Concession

• An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. 
• The time and place a speech is given or a place is written. 
•  The goal the speaker wants to achieve. 
• The repetition of words  but in reverse order 

refutation 

• a denial of the validity of an opposing argument 
• A figure of speech that uses a part of something to represent the whole. 
• The person or group who creates a text, 
• Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another. 

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

BAM!  The door shut behind me. 

• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• paradox

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Is this an oxymoron?

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A