Device List 3

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

"Pen" stands for "the written word"

"Sword" stands for "military aggression"

• metonymy

• euphemism

• paradox

• archetype

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Did you see their quiz scores?"

They are not the sharpest pencils in the box....

• paradox

• euphemism

• trope

• jargon

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

A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies

• synecdoche

• propaganda

• satire

• rhetoric

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Catherine the Great

Ivan the Terrible

Alexander the Great

Richard the Lionheart

• pun

• epithet

• archetype

• allusion

Answer explanation

commonly appear next to or in place of a person's name (like a nickname). A quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

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

• synecdoche

• anecdote

• antidote

• epithet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the presentation of somethin as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

• overstatement

• understatement

• hyperbole

• exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a play on words

• allusion

• pun

• joke

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

usage of words, phrases, or images in a way not intended by its normal significance

• trope

• allusion

• archaic diction

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a statement that has two meanings, one of which is naughty or vulgar

• entendre

• double entendre

• pun

• satire

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• reference

• simile

• comparison

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4