Give Me Liberty...

Identify the following Rhetorical Device Patrick Henry is using:

"No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house."

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Audience Awareness

• Symbolism

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

'I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided..."

• Biblical Allusion

• Mythological Allusion

• Simile

• Repetition

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What rhetorical device is Patrick Henry using in the following phrase?

"...to bind and rivet upon us..."

• Metaphor

• Mythological Allusion

• Symbolism

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

"Suffer yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

• Rhetorical Question

• Mythological Allusion

• Simile

• Biblical Allusion

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

"Is it that insidious smile with which our petition had been lately received? Trust it not, sir..."

• Mythological Allusion

• Rhetorical Question

• Audience Awareness

• Biblical Allusion

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of these is an oxymoron?

• Temporal salvation

• insidious smile

• earthly kings

• awful moment

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

"I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?"

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical Question

• Audience Awareness

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have duplicated..."

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical Question

• Audience Awareness

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the following rhetorical device:

"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled... These are the implements of war and subjugation--the last arguments to which kings resort."

• Pathos

• Allusion

• Ethos

• Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the following Rhetorical Device:

"We have theld the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain."

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical Question

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5