rhetorical devices-review1

The following is an example of which rhetorical device: Chocolate is my Achilles heel; I just cannot resist it.

• simile

• allusion

• anecdote

• allegory

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!

• Anaphora
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.

• Personification 
• Juxtaposition
• Irony
• Paradox

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
Anger is a monster waiting to devour happiness.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Bill is a cheerful pessimist.

• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?

Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current.

• anaphora

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Pun

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
The fog crept through doorways and keyholes.

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
The best way to communicate with a fish is to drop them a line.

• Personification
• Pun
• Rhetorical question
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

• Epistrophe
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

• Epistrophe
• Hyperbole
• Anastrophe
• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5