Rhetorical Device Review

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” (Muhammad Ali)

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.” (Catcher in the Rye-Salinger)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

’Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare)

“The music, the service at the feast, the noble gifts for the great and small, the rich adornment of Theseus’s palace All these things I do not mention now.” (“A Knight’s Tale”-Chaucer)

“Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“For the time being,” he explains, “it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations.” (Animal Farm-Orwell)

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A