Rhetorical Devices

A short story to make a point, draw out emotions, or demonstrate an example

• Imagery

• Parallelism

• Anecdote

• Epiphora

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Integrating elements of another text into your text (work of writing)

• Allusion

• Understatement

• Imagery

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A complex metaphor that uses a concrete idea to illustrate a complicated or abstract idea

• Irony

• Parallelism

• Antithesis

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Repetition of phrases at the beginning of multiple phrases

• irony

• hyperbole

• Anaphora

• rhetorical questions

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of phrases at the end of multiple phrases

• Epiphora

• anaphora

• antithesis

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The juxtaposition of opposite or contrasting ideas in order to show (in)compatibility

• understatement

• imagery

• allusion

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The establishment and repetition of a grammatical pattern, verb, noun, preposition, etc

• Epiphora

• Parallelism

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Exaggerating the significance of something (being extra)

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

Vivid descriptions that engage the six senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, motion)

• Parallelism

• Analogy

• Imagery

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Downplaying the significance of something (opposite of hyperbole)

• irony

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6