Rhetorical Device

A comparison using like or as is called a...

• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Understatement
• Parallelism

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, “Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” he’s using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you?

• Rhetorical Question
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Euphemism

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

“The quiz was a breeze” is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Metaphor
• Understatement
• Oxymoron
• Rhetorical Question

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

At the end of Toy Story 3 we see an adorable snippet of the infamous "balcony scene" with a hedgehog as Romeo and a Little Green Man as Juliet. He quotes, "But soft what light through yonder window breaks," and the LGM quotes, “Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.” This snippet is an example of an...

• Personification
• Allusion
• Parallelism
• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

A talking cucumber would be an example of which rhetorical device?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When you repeat yourself over and over what rhetorical device are you using?

• Rhetorical Question
• Oxymoron
• Repetition
• Ethos

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

The sentence structure in the sentence,“Of the people, by the people, for the people,” is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Parallelism
• Personification
• Repetition
• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The sentence "I'll love you 'til the ocean is folded and hung up to dry and the seven stars go squawking like geese about the sky,” is an example of which rhetorical device (not simile or metaphor)?

• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Repetition
• Rhetorical Appeal

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?                                    

• A. Alliteration 
• B. Allusion
• C. Anaphora

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• A. Metaphor 
• B. Satire 
• C. Anaphora 
• D. Irony 

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4