Rhetorical Terms (pt. 2)

hyperbole

• The plate shattered into a million pieces.

• The plate cracked

• Look, in the sky. It's bird, it's a plane...

• "The devil stands read to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment..."

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

analogy

• Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to find.

• Life is chocolates

• Bang!

• Mike likes Ike for president.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

allusion

• Finishing his memoir was his white whale.

• The treaty led to a violent peace.

• Youth is wasted on the young.

• Finishing his memoir was his goal.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

satire

• When Senator Jackson said “facts don’t lie,” he forgot that his first name wasn’t “Facts.”

• No! That's not true!

• Shelly sells seashells by the seashore.

• You will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

simile

• It was as hot as an oven this morning.

• It was hot.

• Fire burned on the sand.

• Sizzling egg on the sidewalk.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

personification

• The beautiful valley spread its arms out and embraced us.

• The trees moved in the wind.

• The birds chirped in the shade.

• It was as hot as a desert this morning.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

euphemism

• The baseball struck him in a delicate area.

• Bang! He was hit in the back by the baseball.

• The baseball swayed in the air as it approached the batter.

• The beautiful valley spread its arms out and embraced us.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

meiosis

• We must put an end to this peculiar institution.

• You have made a fool out of me for the last time, washing machine!

• Oh, yeah, he is a great guy. A great guy who took the last slice of pizza.

• Can we really know what our place in the universe is? We have asked ourselves this question for millennia.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

antithesis

• No pain, no gain.

• Oh, yeah, he is a great guy. A great guy who took the last slice of pizza.

• He was a wolf among sheep.

• She sells seashells by the sea shore.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

consonance

• Mike likes Ike’s bike.

• Mike loves Sam's bike.

• Mike admires Amanda's automobile.

• Bang! The car backfired as it started each morning.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4