Literary Devices in Rhetoric

"...you've forgotten you're facing the single finest fighting force ever assembled."

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Simile

• Anaphora

You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Allusion

• Anaphora

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

… government of the people, by the people, for the people…

• simile

• hyperbole

• parallelism

• juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

I love you to the moon and back...

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

• hyperbole

• alliteration

"we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground"

• anaphora

• simile

• allusion

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"To err is human; to forgive divine."

• hyoerbole

• simile

• antithesis

• anaphora

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers."

• polysydeton

• anaphora

• simile

• hyperbole

“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The snow is like a blanket of white.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• anaphora

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

We are going to have to let you go...

• hyperbole

• euphemism

• anaphora

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6