Rhetorical Devices

What kind of Allusion is this?

• Literary
• Mythological
• Biblical 
• Historical

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

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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

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

• Metaphor

• Propaganda

• Antithesis

• Allusion

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

• Chiasmus

• Antithesis

• Extended Metaphor

• Epistrophe

"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

“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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Hypophora

• Allusion

“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

"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