Rhetorical Analysis

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Is a

• Alliteration

• Antithesis

• Assonance

• Cacophony

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Which are Rhetorical Analysis Terms?

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Anaphora

• Allusion

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"102 degrees," "obese Siamese cat," and "deep spruce green" are

• Concrete Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Cacophony

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Alliteration is?

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to 

  one another.

• A reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc.

• Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more 

  sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s 

  point more coherent.

• Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, 

  rather than ideas or qualities.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Concrete Language is?

• Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, 

  rather than ideas or qualities.

• Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose, this is the device of calling out to 

  an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

• Repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as way and 

  fade.

• Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is Cacophony?

• A reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc.

• A word or phrase, including slang, used in everyday conversation and 

  informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.

• Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose.

• Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose, this is the device of calling out to 

  an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

How do you spell Allusion

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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Hear the mellow wedding bells, is an example of

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

• Asyndeton

• Assonance

A Colloquialism is a

• Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, 

  rather than ideas or qualities.

• Repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as way and 

  fade.

• The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, 

  phrase, clause, or paragraphs.

• A word or phrase, including slang, used in everyday conversation and 

  informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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An Rhetorical Analysis is a

• Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose, this is the device of calling out to 

  an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

• Commas used, with no conjunction, to separate a series of words. The parts 

  are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted. Also, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence.

• the audience, purpose, medium, and context--within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an argument about that communication.

• Yes