Rhetorical Devices

Which literary device is characterized by the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in close succession?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms?

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which literary device involves the use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

• Meiosis

• Understatement

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the name of the literary device that uses 'like' or 'as' to make a comparison between two different things?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Anecdote

• Paradox

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which literary device is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

• Allusion

• Pun

• Satire

• Irony

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which literary device involves a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings?

• Metonymy

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance, without describing it in detail?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Anecdote

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What literary device is used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison?

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Imagery

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4