Rhetorical Questions

the repetition of the first consonant sound occuring close together in a series

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Example "But a better butter makes a better batter"

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a brief reference to a famous person or event- often from literature, history, Greek mythology, or the bible...

• alliteration

• allusion

• alliternation

• aullsion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Example: he was a real Romeo with the ladies

• alliteration

• allusion

• act 1

• acting

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the combination of two words of opposite meanings for dramatic, comedic or provocative effect

• oxymoron

• parallelism

• repetition

• oxystupid

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Example: dark comedy, open secret, jumb shrimp

• anaphora

• logos

• pun

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

an obvious, intended exaggeration

• simile

• hyperbole

• verbal irony

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Example: "I've told you a million times!"

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• irony

• exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

comparison without like or as

• hyperbole

• understatement

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Example: He felt lost in a sea of faces

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4