Rhetorical Devices

"The defendant is not guilty, but someone in this courtroom is."

• parallelism

• metaphor

• allusion

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“...but in this country, our courts are the great levelers…”

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

• more than one of these

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“...the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women..”

• metaphor

• simile

• parallelism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin...”

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal....”

• simile

• metaphor

• paralellism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“There is one institution in which all men are created equal-there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president...”

• metaphor

• repetition

• parallelism

• more than one of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up..”

• metaphor

• allusion

• parallelism

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“... and in our courts all men are created equal.”

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“...review without passion what you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant back to his family.”

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4