Analogy, Allusion, Anecdote

A short story or scenario taken from personal experience that relates to the content of the speech

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An extended comparison that can help an audience to understand a complex idea

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Any type of reference to something outside of a text (can be mythological, literary, historical, biblical, etc.)

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Many years had elapsed during which nothing of Combray, save what was comprised in the theatre and the drama of my going to bed there, had any existence for me, when one day in winter, as I came home, my mother, seeing that I was cold, offered me some tea, a thing I did not ordinarily take. I declined at first, and then, for no particular reason, changed my mind. She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called ‘petites madeleines,’ which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim’s shell. - Swann’s Way of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

She opened Pandora’s box with that question.

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. - In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Albus Dumbledore

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest. - To Kill a Mockingbird

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4