Rhetorical Devices Review

Using strongly contrasting words, images, or ideas

• antithesis

• juxtaposition

• restatement

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Repeating an idea using the same words

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• repetition

• parallelism

This appeal represents credibility or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion by the character involved

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

Repeating grammatical structures

• antithesis

• parallelism

• allusion

• restatement

Asking a question with an obvious answer

• repetition

• charged words

• anthropomorphism

• rhetorical question

An appeal to the audience's emotions

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

Words that carry strong emotional connotations

• metonymy

• allusion

• charged words

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Reference to something (literature, current events, etc.) outside the work itself

• charged words

• allusion

• antithesis

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

An argument that appeals to an audience's sense of logic or reason

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.1C

Repeating an idea using DIFFERENT words

• charged words

• epistrophe

• repetition

• restatement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4