Rhetorical Devices and Parts of an Argument

Which of the following is an example of anaphora?

• "My grandmother is as old as the hills."

• “My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.”

• "Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

  How I wonder what you are."

• “Tell them to be good, tell them to follow their elders, and tell them to mind their manners.”

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" is an example of

• juxtaposition

• anaphora

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which choices are an example of juxtaposition?

• Merry and tragical

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

• Grand and Wonderous

• I believe the ocean is more terrifying than space

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the figure of speech?

Smiling faces, rustling papers, the swish of feet swinging back and forth; the class began cheerfully with students reading and writing and humming the school fight song.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

After Dan climbed the steep hill, his legs were rubber.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get.

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

• parallelism

• anaphora

• anecdote

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• anthimeria

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the meaning of the allusion?

My friend was being a total Scrooge when I asked her to share her M&Ms.

• Not wanting to share

• Excited about sharing

• Throwing them all away

• Counting the M&Ms

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4