Rehetorical Devices Terms

a reference to another text or assumed knowledge of a reference to a book, movie, the Bible or Greek Mythology

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a successive phrases, clauses, or lines

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Antistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a stated comparison between two unlike things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration; intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

an emotional meaning that is implied by a word (positive, negative or neutral)

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Intensity

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the author's attitude toward the topic

• Connotation

• Tone

• Denotation

• Intensity

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or line

• Antistrophe

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repeated words of phrases to emphasize meaning

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Anaphora

• Antistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words;

• Repetition

• Antistrophe

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4