Rhetorical Devices and Figurative Language MCQ G10

What are rhetorical devices and figurative language?

• words used in poetry.

• words writers and speakers use that can explain, persuade, unify ideas, or emphasize. Also, a kind of descriptive language that doesn't mean what it says literally.

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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 rhetorical device is being used in the following sentence: 'Her eyes were diamonds, sparkling in the sunlight'?

• anaphora

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What's used here? 'There is enough food in this fridge to feed an army!'

• metaphor

• personfication

• symbolism

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the figurative language used here: 'The wind whispered through the trees'.

• personification

• imagery

• anaphora

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What's used in here:

'Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day'. 

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

'Then the white pigeons flew and peace was restored'

what's used above?

• metaphor

• symbolism

• hyperbole

• imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify what's being used below:

'David stepped out of his car and thought the bright orange, beaming sunlight will make him blind'.

• personification

• symbolism

• imagery

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5