Rhetorical Devices

Which rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'He is as brave as a lion'?

• Rhetorical Question

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'Time is a thief'?

• Rhetorical Question

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Which rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'The stars danced through the moonlit sky'?

• Rhetorical Question

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'If you prick us do we not bleed'?

• Rhetorical Question

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark'?

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'He’s so hungry, he could eat a horse'?

• Euphemism

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'Pass away' instead of 'die'?

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'I love you more than life itself'?

• Repetition

• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What rhetorical device is being used in the phrase 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character'?

• Parallelism

• Juxtaposition

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a mild or pleasant term used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one

• epistrophe
• euphemism
• juxtaposition
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A