Retorical Devies

the dictionary or literal meaning of a word or phrase

• Diction

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Syntax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

associations and/or nonliteral meanings of word.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Connotation

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

word choice

• Syntax

• Tone

• Denotation

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

ordering of words, phrases, and punctuation in a sentence

• Tone

• Syntax

• Anaphora

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the author’s overall attitude throughout the course of a work

• Mood

• Word choice

• Tone

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A comparison using “like” or “as.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparsion that does not use "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Extreme exgerration

• Understatement

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• overstatement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving a non living thing a human quality

• Imagery

• Mood

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object through the use of the 5 senses

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Imagery

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5