Rhetorical Devices & Figurative Language

Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting.. 1,845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging.. 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe."

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• pathos and ethos

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

• rhetorical question

• logos

• metaphor

• anaphora

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!

• logos

• repetition

• repetition

• metaphor

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

• parallelism

What is the claim in this picture?

• Spare parts for humans

• Not as original as those for cars.

• BMW

• Don't drink and drive.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The NEW Subway wrap is the single greatest thing in the world! Get one today!

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

*Great Depression

*Jumbo shrimp

*Cruel to be Kind

*Pain for pleasure

*Clearly confused

*Act naturally

*Painfully beautiful

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Analogy

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Imagery 
• B. Personification 
• C. Rhetoric 
• E. Rhetorical Question 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"To think on death it is a misery,

To think on life it is a vanity;

to think on the world verily it is,

to think that here man hath no perfect bliss." - Peachum

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical Question

• Anaphora

• Oxymoron

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

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• Irony