The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

• Metonymy

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

• Synecdoche

• Epsitrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The purposeful repetition of conjunctions in a sentence.

• Paralinguistics

• Juxtaposition

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The purposeful omission of conjunctions in a sentence.

• Epistrophe

• Imagery

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

In written speech, this refers to the choices an author makes when formatting words: ALL CAPS, ​italicizes, ​ Bold, ​“quotes”.

• Paralinguistics

• Imagery

• Diction

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

​Language that evokes any of the five senses.

• Symbol

• Personification

• Imagery

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

• Asyndeton

• Paralinguistics

• Rhetorical Question

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

• Metaphor

• Asyndeton

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A direct comparison that states on thing is another.

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D