Rhetorical Devices Use in Jason Reynold's Grab the Mic, March Ed

Identify the rhetorical device:

"It means she remembers when watching television was for fancy people—a luxury. Same as running water. And electricity. She remembers the civil rights movement, the March on Washington, the death of Dr. King and President Kennedy. She remembers America going to war and to the moon and to the disco. She remembers the first computer, the first beeper (ask your parents) and the first cellphone."

• alliteration

• analogy

• anaphora

• ambiguity

Identify the figurative speech:

"It’s the smart phone, its glowing touchscreen and cartoonish icons, that’s turned her 75 years into what feels to her like 75 minutes."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• analogy

Identify the part of speech the underlined word is:

"even though she still doesn’t quite grasp the idea that she’s on speakerphone and doesn’t need to put the phone to her ear. And when she does, I get a full glimpse of what’s going on in her head. Literally."

• noune

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the rhetorical device:

"First, I had to teach her how to take a photo. Then, I had to show her how to find the photo she’d taken. Then, I had to show her how to send it through text."

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

• parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device:

"And I kept telling her it was fine. Because it was fine. As a matter of fact, it was better than fine."

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

• parallelism

Identify the rhetorical device:

"We practiced and practiced, tried and tried, running through it again and again, me trying to help, her begging me not to."

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

• parallelism

identify the figurative speech:

The sound of a cartoon droplet chimed from her phone, and the ding of a bell from mine.

• alliteration

• metonymy

• onamatopoiea

Identify the part of speech the following words are:

"She’d sent. I’d received."

• nouns

• verbs

• adjectives

• adverbs

Identify the part of speech the following word is:

But I was also … full.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the figure of speech:

a moment where learning was recycled between the two of us like breath

• analogy

• metaphor

• simile

• personification