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Rhetorical Devices

Authored by Kaitlyn Keesbery

English

10th Grade

CCSS covered

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Rhetorical Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

dwelling on a point by repeating it several times in different words

commoratio

repetition

anaphora

similie

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. For repetition to be noticeable, the words or phrases should be repeated within close proximity of each other.

anaphora

commoratio

repetition

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

It’s about balancing the weight or structure of ideas and phrases. In rhetoric, parallelism means balancing two or more ideas or arguments that are equally important.

repetition

parallelism / parallel structure

anaphora

commoratio

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

repetition of the last work of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

commoratio

parallelism / parallel structure

anadiplosis

anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

anadiplosis

allusion

simile

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

repetition of conjunctions in close succession

Polysyndeton

simile

metaphor

Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

repetition

anaphora

 Polysyndeton

Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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