Rhetorical Appeals & Devices

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

• Juxtaposition

• Ethos

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Synecdoche

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

an over exaggeration

• Anaphora

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

• Polysyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Synecdoche

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Deliberate use of many conjunctions (most typically "and")

• Rhetorical Question

• Polysyndeton

• Antithesis

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

• Rhetorical Question

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5