Rhetorical Devices

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Which literary device is characterized by the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in close succession?

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Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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What is the term for a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms?

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Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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Which literary device involves the use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

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Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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What is the name of the literary device that uses 'like' or 'as' to make a comparison between two different things?

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Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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Which literary device is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

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Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas?

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Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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Which literary device involves a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings?

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Pun

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CCSS.L.8.5A

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Term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance, without describing it in detail.

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Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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What literary device is used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison? Options: Metonymy, Irony, Imagery, Simile

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Imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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Which literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words?

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Assonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4