Rhetorical Devices

"big. beefy. bliss." is which device?

• slogan

• alliteration

• asterismos

• simile

Tags

TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

The tag line "Red Bull Gives You WIIINGS" is what device?

• Call to Action

• Anecdote

• Alliteration

• Slogan

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

This ad is asking you to subscribe, which is what rhetorical device?

• Call to Action

• Metaphor

• Slogan

• Asterismos

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

The use of "All" at the beginning of each phrase is an example of which device?

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Anecdote

• Eutrepismus

Tags

TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.2.10F

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

I remember learning how to swim. I took lessons at the community pool in the town where I grew up. One of the lifeguards, Ms. Jen, really helped me get comfortable with holding my breath. She'd play this bobbing game with us that had a fun song to go along with it. Whenever I get in a pool, I still sing that song in my head.

This is an example of what device?

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Call to Action

Tags

TEKS.ELA.2.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.E1.8

TEKS.ELA.E2.8

TEKS.ELA.E3.8

TEKS.ELA.E4.8

His words were like daggers to her heart.

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.9B

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.6.9D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

"The student was a sea of troubles."

• Understatement

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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TEKS.ELA.8.9D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.LG.2I

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• anthimeria

• antithesis

Tags

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

Rhetorical Question

• What is 2 + 2?

• Do you want to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks?

• The strategy of asking a question and immediately answering it.

• After all, what is life anyway? We are born, live a little and then die.

Tags

TEKS.ELA.2.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.E1.8

TEKS.ELA.E2.8

TEKS.ELA.E3.8

TEKS.ELA.E4.8

She sells sea shells by the sea shore, is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Allusion

• Anecdote

Tags

TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B