Rhetorical Devices #2

a rhetorical device in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it.

• irony

• procatalepsis

• sarcasm

• hypophora

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a rhetorical device in which a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases.

• rhetorical question

• anaphora

• irony

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a rhetorical device in which words are used to express something other than, and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

• hypophora

• irony

• anaphora

• procatalepsis

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a question not intended to require an answer

• sarcasm

• rhetorical question

• hypophora

• anaphora

a rhetorical device that uses words or remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what they say, made in order to criticize someone or something

• irony

• sarcasm

• procatalepsis

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a figure of speech wherein a writer raises a question and then immediately answers it.

• sarcasm

• hypophora

• irony

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A