Speech Giving Techniques Refresher

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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events.

• A. A. Imagery 
• B. Alliteration 
• C. Rhetoric 
• D. E. Allusion 

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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.11-12.6

Which rhetorical device uses the same word or phrase over again multiple times to highlight or emphasize an idea?

• parallelism
• repetition
• restatement
• analogy

Which rhetorical device uses a comparison to something very different to help someone understand a larger idea?

• parallelism
• repetition
• restatement
• analogy

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which techniques is in this line?

• anaphora

• colloquialism

• use of idiom

• hyperbole

Complete the line .."And make us a record, a new _________ ____

What technique(s) is this?

• repetition

• parallels -

• rhetorical question

• allusion

We invented commuters..But we'll hope you'll forgive us.- what techniques is it?

• Use of direct address

• Use of imperative

• Use of inclusive pronouns

• Use of humor as irony

• use of rhyme

Give 3 adjectives to sum up your feeling about Tony's Poem. (As a Manchester person after the 2017 bombing - not as as WIS student in HK 2020)

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