To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• hyperbole

• simile

• allusion

• logos

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

He refuses to donate any money to the charity.  He is such a scrooge. 
This statement is a(n)...

• allusion

• juxtapose 

• simile

• anecdote

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• rhetorical synopsis

• rhetorical question 

• allusion

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhetorical questions are literal.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A rhetorical question _____________

• requires and answer

• Does not require an answer

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"Life is but a walking shadow; a poor player..." This is an example of a...

• simile 

• metaphor

• anecdote

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

We shall not flag or fail.  We shall go on to the end. We shall fight n France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. 
This is an example of...

• a simile 

• personification

• parallelism 

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
This quote contains a(n)...

• analogy 

• juxtaposition 

• allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

They say he’s closed the eyes of many a man and opened the eyes of many a woman.

This is an example of...

• an allusion

• metaphor

• juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5