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Rhetorical Strategies (or Devices)

Authored by Julie Ray

English

9th - 11th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 8+ times

Rhetorical Strategies (or Devices)
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

anaphora

rhetorical question

rhetoric

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Logos

using clear and concise terms; using logic and reason

uses language that draws emotions such as pity or anger

uses a celebrity to endorse a product

strategy that uses comparisons to make a point

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the repeating of words, phrases, or clauses for emphasis... "I have a dream..."

Parallelism

Anaphora

alliteration

repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

giving human qualities to something that is inanimate or an animal..."The sun smiles at me in the morning..."

metaphor

simile

personification

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a rhetorical device used to get people to stop thinking and to start feeling

pathos

logos

ethos

paralleism

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a reference in one piece of writing to another famous piece of literature, historical, or famous event

alliteration

allusion

anaphora

extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This strategy intentionally exaggerates conditions for effect.

irony

idiom

allusion

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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