Rhetorical Devices

Which is an example of an ALLUSION?

• People part like the Red Sea

• The pen is mightier than the sword.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

PARALLELISM is

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• repetition of first word or set of words

• similarity in the structure of words, phrases, verb tenses

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An example of ALLITERATION is

• People parted like the Red Sea when he came in.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• The pen is mightier than the sword.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

An example of ANAPHORA is

• The pen is mightier than the sword.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• It takes a family, it takes teachers, it takes clergy...

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An example of a SYNECDOCHE is

• A hospital tried to revive him.

• The pen is mightier than the sword.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

This country is a shining city on a hill is...

• metaphor

• simile

• anaphora

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" is...

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The wind whispered, "hello." Is

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Simile is a comparison using like or as

• True

• False

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"The wall both exists and doesn't exist." Is a..

• paradox

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4