Rhetorical devices test

a play on the meaning of words

• pun

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

an implied comparison between 2 things

• metaphor

• simile

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an explicit comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

attributing human like qualities to an inanimate object

• personification

• animism

• pathetic fallacy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

attributing human qualities to a force of nature

• pathetic fallacy

• personification

• animism

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

attributing animal like qualities that are not uniquely human to animal to an inanimate object

• animism

• personification

• pathetic fallacy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

takes on another voice or roll that states the opposite of what is expressed

• verbal irony

• symbol

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

• hyperbole

• verbal irony

• apostrope

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

intensifies an idea by an understatement

• liltotes

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

understanding one thing for another

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4