Identifying Rhetorical Techniques (Grade 11)

The religious community, our political leaders, law enforcement—they all have a responsibility to address community violence.

• listing

• juxtaposition

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

You all laugh and dance while our children suffer.

• repetition

• contrast/juxtaposition

• facts & figures

• technical diction

Your short-term memory is like the RAM on a computer: it records the information in front of you right now.

• emotive diction

• imagery

• analogy

• facts and figures

If we go down this path, then there's no going back.

• facts and figures

• juxtaposition

• emotive diction

• if/then logic

The rooms of my house were filled with colorful, glittery, shining things. Now they are dimmed by a layer of fine gray dust.

• figurative language

• imagery

• allusion

• ethos

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

• parallelism

• cause and effect

• patriotic diction

• analogy

This horrible travesty will only be solved through blood, sweat, tears, and love.

• facts and figures

• contrast

• parallelism

• emotive diction

I asked my friend Amos about the proposed law, and he told me that it would destroy his family.

• anecdote

• analogy

• listing

• allusion

Senator Blumenthal is completely confused on this point. He's gone fully Alice in Wonderland.

• anecdote

• imagery

• allusion

• juxtaposition

Which answer best describes the tone of this excerpt?

Today is the beginning of spring, and tomorrow is the beginning of democracy. Now is the time to come together, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans. Americans of the same flesh and blood, that care about one thing and one thing only, and that’s the future of this country and the children that are going to lead it.

• critical

• inspiring

• informative

• analytical