rhetoric devices

What is the rhetoric device that involves repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which rhetoric device involves using exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is the name of the rhetoric device that refers to the use of words that imitate the sound they describe?

• Alliteration

• Simile
  

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Which rhetoric device involves a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

What rhetoric device is used when contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Personification

• Alliteration

Which rhetoric device involves attributing human characteristics or qualities to non-human entities?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia
  

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the rhetoric device that involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

What is the name of the rhetoric device that expresses a resemblance between two unrelated things?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Analogy

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which rhetoric device involves the use of a series of related words that build up to a climactic point?

• Anaphora

• Climax

• Antithesis

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4