Identifying Rhetorical Devices

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

• Epistrophe
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

• Epistrophe
• Hyperbole
• Anastrophe
• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The following is an example of what kind of literary device?
“The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek–now that, too, was gone….”

• Hyperbole
• Epistrophe
• Apostrophe
• Anastrophe

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!

• Anaphora
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.

• Personification 
• Juxtaposition
• Irony
• Paradox

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
All’s fair in love and war. 

• Metaphor 
• Pun
• Rhetorical question
• Juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
Anger is a monster waiting to devour happiness.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Bill is a cheerful pessimist.

• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
The fog crept through doorways and keyholes.

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?
Jack is like a squirrel

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Juxtaposition
• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D