Rhetorical Devices Review

An analogy in which one thing is compared to a second thing.

• metonymy

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A type of metaphor in which the comparison is made explicit through the use of words such as like, as, similar to, or resembles.

• personification

• apostrophe

• simile

• synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Reference to a person, idea, or activity by substituting something located in close physical proximity to it, as when the king is referred to with the words the crown.

• metaphor

• simile

• metonymy

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Use of a concrete object to represent an abstract quality or idea.

• symbolism

• paradox

• alliteration

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The attribution of human qualities to an object, animal, or concept.

• hyperbole

• personification

• paradox

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The act of addressing someone or something that is absent or dead as if it were alive, present, and capable of responding.

• apostrophe

• personification

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Strategic exaggeration or overstatement.

• metaphor

• paradox

• hyperbole

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A contradiction that is somehow true.

• metaphor

• apostrophe

• onomatopoeia

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of two words in close proximity.

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• metonymy

The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of two or more words in proximity to one another.

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4