Rhetorical Devices

The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech.

• repetition

• anaphora

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An argument that appeals to an audience's sense of logic or reason

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Writers or speakers connect their thinking to the reader's or audience's own ethical or moral belief.

• pathos

• logos

• ethos

• persuasion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

"Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel" is an example of

• allusion

• illusion

• figurative language

• charged words

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced, not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best" is an example of

• logos

• restatement

• antithesis

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I have a dream..." is an example of

• charged words

• allusion

• restatement

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This is an example of...

• ethos 
• logos 
• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

writers or speakers draw on the emotions of the reader of audience.

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• persuasion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Repeating an idea using the same words

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• repetition

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Hope for the best; prepare for the worst" is an example of

• figurative language

• charged words

• metonymy

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4