Rhetorical Devices

Repetition of the first letter or sound in group of words

• metaphor

• anaphora

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences or clauses

• anatolia

• anaphora

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A technique in which the speaker inverts the order of a phrase

• anaphora

• chiasmus

• chasm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

an indirect reference to another well-known person, event, or thing

• illusion

• evasion

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• analogy

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that does not use 'like' or 'as'

• analogy

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

• Saying something is like something else to make some sort of an explanatory point.

• metaphor

• simile

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Repetition of a word or expression at the end of a sentence or phrase

• dilemma

• epistrophe

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses

• zeugma

• sanitation

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

this is asked in order to create a dramatic effect, not for an answer

• rhetorical question

• alliterative question

• metaphorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5