Rhetorical Devices

Complete the pun: Broken pencils are...

• Wood

• Pointless

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Dunkin Doughnuts, Coca-Cola and Bed Bath and Beyond are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Allusion is...

• a question without an answer

• a short, entertain account

• a magic trick

• a reference to a person, text, event, or well-known piece of pop culture

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A rhetorical question requires an answer.

• No

• Yes

A hyperbole is an exaggeration that is obvious and not supposed to be taken literally.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Repetition is...

• asking a question of an audience

• comparing two different items

• using facts or statistics

• repeating words or phrases for emphasis

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A simile is...

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• A comparison that uses like or as

• Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact

• Connecting two things

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It is the imagery use to address our sense of vision. In that way, the reader can visualize what is happening in the story in her or his own mind.

• visual imagery

• sound imagery

• taste imagery

• auditory imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is dramatic irony?

• when the speaker says one thing and means the opposite

• a contrast between what a character expects and what really happens

• the reader or viewer knows more than the characters in the story

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.8.5A