Rhetorical Devices

What kind of Allusion is this?

• Literary
• Mythological
• Biblical 
• Historical

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the best definition of rhetoric?

• the ability to use Greek terms in persuasion
• the art of getting your message across and creating a persuasive argument
• the ability to write a good descriptive essay
• the art of body movement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A __________________ is any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience.

• Simile
• Rhetorical Device
• Rhetorical Appeal
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart" is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Propaganda

• Antithesis

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

"Are you working hard or hardly working?" is an example of:

• Chiasmus

• Antithesis

• Extended Metaphor

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse an pretty soon they were too complicated."

• Chiasmus

• Hypophora

• Parallelism

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune – without the words,

And never stops at all," - Emily Dickinson

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Allusion

• Extended Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

“My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Hypophora

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,

This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings [. . .]

This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,”

• Extended Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Ethos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The time for healing of the wounds has come.

The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come." - Nelson Mandela

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4