Rhetorical Devices

Dunkin Doughnuts, Coca-Cola and Bed Bath and Beyond are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Personification

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This rhetorical device that is an arrangement of words or sentences in similar grammatical form to show the ideas are equal in importance.

Examples of this are:

Easy come, easy go

Like father, like son.

I have a dream.

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

A hyperbole is an exaggeration that is obvious and not supposed to be taken literally.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Tis but a scratch" is an example of a(n) _________.

• Rhetorical Question

• Euphemism

• Allusion

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A rhetorical question requires an answer.

• No

• Yes

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

This picture is a visual example of which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

You're being let go. Her father passed away.

The toddler told his mom that he needed to go potty.

These are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Verbal Irony

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An allusion is a reference to a famous person or event.

• False

• True

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Pick which of the following are examples of the rhetorical device Oxymoron:

(pick all that apply)

• Bright Night

• Cold Fire

• Loving Hate

• Lively Dead

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A