Rhetorical Devices

As the butterfly emerges from its cocoon, so must you leave your comfort zone and experience the wider world.

• juxtaposition

• analogy

• rhetorical sentence

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The movie scene focuses on a band of zombies creeping up on a peaceful, moonlit town.

• juxtaposition

• analogy

• rhetorical question.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What two things are being compared in this analogy? Swords are the weapons of warriors, but words are the weapons of writers.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What two things are being compared in the analogy? A math problem seems like a maze-so many twists, turns, and frustrating dead ends.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What two things are being compared in this analogy? The police officers hold the prisoner tightly, as if he were an eel that might just slip their grip and run away.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Why might an author compare a spelling bee to a tough political campaign?

• to clarify the rules of a spelling bee

• to emphasize the degree of competition

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Why might an environmental essayist juxtapose a landfill and a wilderness?

• to stress the need for reducing waste to save the wilderness

• to demonstrate the wilderness is the best place to put in landfills

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CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.8

Are you going to stand by and let the power lines be built in our backyards?

• juxtaposition

• rhetorical question

• analogy

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The dark sky threatened as the icy blasts of winder rattled the windows, while inside the family sat peacefully in the warm glow of the log fire.

• rhetorical question

• analogy

• juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which choice is an example of a rhetorical question?

• Who would not want to help a child in need?

• Who would like to volunteer to help children in need?