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Rhetorical Devices Lessons

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

Rhetorical Devices Lessons
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What is the allusion focusing on in the sentence below?

How potato chips are awesome and everyone should eat them!

Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's habit. Therefore, this sentence is referencing someone's habit of eating potato chips.

Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's passion. Therefore, this sentence is referencing that even though the person is on a diet they steal cheat and eat potato chips because they love them so much.

Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's weakness. In this case, potato chips is the person's weakness which diminishes the success of their diet.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Can you put a price tag on your family's security? Don't you want to guarantee that your family is going to be safe? Isn't it worth a few dollars more to protect them in one of the safest cars ever built?

ethos

pathos

logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

anaphora

epistrophe

rhetorical question

parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

anaphora

epistrophe

antithesis

parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

anthimeria

parallelism

asyndeton

antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

OXYMORON

A comparison between two things that uses like or as

A connection that is made between two things

The combination of two words of opposite meaning

Words that imitate the sound they describe

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

METAPHOR

A comparison between two things that uses like or as

An exaggeration

Repeating words or phrases for emphasis

A comparison between two things that does not use like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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