Rhetorical Devices

Repeating the same sentence structure or pattern of words.

• Parallelism

• Imagery

• Anaphora

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the best definition for repetition?

• repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure

• repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis

• word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• referring to well-known people, books, or institutions

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

“Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory’s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been.”

• Personification

• Euphemism

• Repetition

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A.Simile
• B.Invective
• C. Alliteration
• D. Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• simile

• parallelism

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

hyperbole

• repetition of the beginning sound of a word

• comparison of two seemingly unlike things

• an exaggeration to make a point

• repetition of the last word of a phrase or sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When Jesse Jackson says, “I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds. . . ” he is using which grammatical pattern that increases clarity and adds rhythm?

• parallelism

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the best definition for charged language?

• repetition of a specific phrase to create rhythm or structure

• referring to a well-known person, book, or institution.

• word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• a question that has a very obvious answer, meant to further the argument

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the best definition for an analogy?

• comparing two unlike things to add emphasis

• word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• repeating one word or phrase to add emphasis

• comparing two extreme opposite ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D