Rhetorical Devices/Literary Terms Game 1

No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be….

• allusion

• litotes

• apostrophe

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Hello Darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again._________________________

• hyperbole

• hypophora

• apostrophe

• simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Currently, the state of American politics is mildly dysfunctional.

• understatement

• litotes

• hypophora

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

You are like a hurricane.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron/paradox

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it.

• apostrophe

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

That store is not in the most convenient location.

• understatement

• hyperbole

• litotes

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

My neighborhood is so boring that when a cat walks across the street, it draws a crowd.

• understatement

• hyperbole

• antithesis

• litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

He took off so quickly that his tires screeched.

• oxymoron/paradox

• onomatopoeia

• litotes

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Do we then submit to our oppressor? No. No. A thousand times, no.

• litotes

• hypophora

• rhetorical question

• assonance

I ask that men be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

• hypophora

• antithesis

• litotes

• oxymoron/paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5