Rhetorical Devices

Choose the definition and example of alliteration.

• Words that sound the same: "day and play".

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".

• Repetition of words at the beginning of a sentence, clause, or phrase: Love is the question, love is the answer, love is everything

• An exaggeration: "I've told you a million times to clean your room!"

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An allusion is

• A reference to a person, event, place in the past. They can be real or from other works of literature, movies, plays, etc.: "Don't be such a Grinch".

• Opposite words to create an effect: "A deafening silence".

• The comparison of 2 unlike things without using "like" or "as":

  "This room is a war zone".

• Concrete words that cater to the senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell: "The bright, green, sour Granny Smith apple".

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What rhetorical device is the following example:

"The living dead".

• Epistrophe

• Anadiplosis

• Oxymoron

• Climax

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is the following example:

The good thing about Barcelona is the food. What’s even better is the Mediterranean. The best, by far, is the climate.

• Antithesis

• Anadiplosis

• Climax

• Paradox

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is the following example?

Don’t we all work too much?

• Pleonasm

• Rhetorical question

• Anecdote

• Amplification

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Repetition of a word or phrase at or very near the beginning of the next clause or sentence.

What rhetorical device is the following example?

I grew up in a village, a village full of cows. These cows were our friends back then.

• Anaphora

• Climax

• Pleonasm

• Anadiplosis

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Antithesis is:

• Repetition at the end on successive phrases, clauses, or sentences: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child".

• Giving inanimate objects or ideas human traits or qualities: "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky."

• A contrasting relationship between 2 ideas: "That’s one small step for mankind, one giant step for mankind".

• Being redundant to emphasize an idea: "The point he made was blank, empty, and hollow".

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5