Rhetorical Devices

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Imagery

• Personification

• Rhetoric

• Rhetorical Question

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Rhetoric

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.9

Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting.. 1,845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging.. 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe."

• ethos only

• ethos and logos

• logos only

• pathos and ethos

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.SL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.1B

Your words have power. The power to hurt, the power to help. Give power and use them wisely. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds. Don't let your words be a cause.

• repetition and logos

• logos only

• pathos and repetition

• ethos and pathos

Tags

CCSS.SL.8.3

Use L'oreal Paris eye shadow and make your lids as colorful as the rainbow sent after the flood. Be as beautiful as God's promise to Noah.

• allusion

• simile and allusion

• parallel structure

• ethois

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

restating words and phrases for emphasis...

• climax ordering

• alliteration

• parallelism

• repetition

using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter...

• climax ordering

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• parallelism

"Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God."

• Alliteration

• Parallelism

• Concrete

• Onomatopoeia

Watch out for him, ladies...he's a Romeo!

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Concrete

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Extreme exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4