Rhetorical Devices Review

Using strongly contrasting words or ideas in close proximity to one another in a sentence.

• allusion

• juxtaposition

• restatement

• metaphor

Repeating an idea using the same words

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• repetition

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating grammatical structures

• antithesis

• parallelism

• allusion

• restatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Asking an obvious question which does not need to be answered.

• repetition

• understatement

• euphemism

• rhetorical question

Words that carry strong emotional connotations

• understatement

• allusion

• tone

• hyperbole

Reference to something (literature, current events, etc.) outside the work itself

• hyperbole

• allusion

• parallelism

• euphemism

Repeating an idea using DIFFERENT words

• tone

• parallelism

• repetition

• restatement

"I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of

• repetition

• parallelism

• hyperbole

• understatement

MLK's "I have a dream..." is an example of

• charged words

• allusion

• restatement

• repetition

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" is an example of

• euphamism

• rhetorical question

• juxtaposition

• allusion