Rhetorical Device Check 2

The ocean heaved a sigh that sent the wave crashing on the shore

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally

• figurative language

• aphorism

• allegory

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Hollywood has been releasing a surprising number of films this year.

• synechdoche

• metonymy

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

• simile

• metonymy

• synechdoche

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Just as children eagerly await the arrival of Christmas, so do AP Lang students await rhetorical device quizzes! (Ok, this is a bad _______________________).

• allegory

• analogy

• aphorism

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I have been waiting for you to finish getting ready for years.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The children’s novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is actually a(n) _______________________ about religion that features Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas

• allegory

• aphorism

• figurative language

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“She yawned gracefully in my face. ‘Please come and see me . . . Phone book . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard . . . My aunt . . .’ She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• ellipsis

• allegory

• idiom

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The smell of his cologne weighed heavily upon my skin and filled my mouth with a pungent taste.

• synesthesia

• idiom

• allegory

• aphorism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa.”- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

• metaphor

• simile

• metonymy

• synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4