Identifying rhetorical language features

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously."

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

“What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation."

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly."

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"You are sunlight and I moon."

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• 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

“Be bold. Be brief. Be gone.”

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"A time to be born, a time to die

A time to plant, a time to reap"

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Will no one tell me what she sings?”

• Rhetorical question

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4