Rhetorical Devices Lessons

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English
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11th Grade
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Hard
+10
Standards-aligned
Sarah Williams
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
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.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
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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