Rhetorical Devices 8th Grade ELA

When the canary keeled over, the coal miners left the cave.

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• antithesis

1. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

A common real estate adage is "location, location, location".

• antithesis

• onomatopoeia

• parallelism

• rule of three

1. Dad released a belch from the pit of his stomach.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

Winston Churchill's World War II speech: "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender"

• anaphora

• antithesis

• parallelism

• hyperbole

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"

• hyperbole

• personification

• parallelism

• allusion

• Last week, he was just fine. Yesterday, he was just fine. And today, he was just fine.

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism

• alliteration

An author might compare an action to opening Pandora's Box, which is a Greek myth about releasing evil into the world

• rule of three

• epistrophe

• personification

• allusion

"Speech is silver, but silence is gold"

• antithesis

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• "It's so hot outside, you could fry an egg" 

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile