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Rhetorical Devices

Authored by Treasure Fogle

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Rhetorical Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story.

Anaphora

Allusion

Foreshadow

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Descriptive language that engages the human senses (sight, taste, smell, touch).

Rhetorical Question

Allusion

Repetition

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An unexplained reference to someone or something outside of the text with the intent to layer associations and meanings from these sources onto their own work.

Allusion

Comparison

Ethos

Repetiton

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An event in literature in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are.

Irony

Alliteration

Metaphor

Pathos

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Occurs when the same vowel sound repeats within a group of words. Assonance occurs when sounds, not letters, repeat.

Oxymoron

Paradox

Assonance

Logos

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a question is asked for a reason other than to get an answer—most commonly, it's asked to make a persuasive point

Paradox

Rhetorical Question

Repetition

Persuasion

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A device that occurs in literature that seems to contradict itself, but which, upon further examination, contains some kernel of truth or reason.

Paradox

Oxymoron

Analogy

Rhetorical Question

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