I Have a Dream Rhetorical Devices

This rhetorical device that is an arrangement of words or sentences in similar grammatical form to show the ideas are equal in importance.

Examples of this are:

Easy come, easy go

Like father, like son.

I have a dream.

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

This picture is a visual example of which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

Pick which of the following are examples of the rhetorical device Oxymoron:

(pick all that apply)

• Bright Night

• Cold Fire

• Loving Hate

• Lively Dead

You're being let go. Her father passed away.

The toddler told his mom that he needed to go potty.

These are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Verbal Irony

• Euphemism

Anaphora:

• The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of several words in a sequence.

• The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences

• The comparison of two unlike things by using the words LIKE or AS

• Appeal to emotions

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

• anaphora

• allusion

• alliteration

• metaphor

Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses?

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

In the phrase 'I have a dream,' which rhetorical device is primarily being used?

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What rhetorical device is used when contrasting ideas are expressed in a grammatically balanced statement?

• Antithesis

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification