Rhetorical Devices

The term that means understatement that negates is

• Anachronism
• Litotes
• Understatement
• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The term that means to purposely leave out conjunctions is

• Asyndeton
• Polysyndeton
• Anachronism
• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The term that means a repetition of vowel sounds is

• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Anadiplosis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The term that means a reference to a well known person, place or thing is

• Parallelism
• Allusion
• Diction
• Anachronism

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The following is an example of what term: Piggy the Panda paid for a purple popsicle.

• Irony
• Anadiplosis
• Alliteration
• Syntax

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

The following is an example of what term:  The man went to the store and bought apples and bananas and legos and bread and chapstick.

• Connotation
• Oxymoron
• Asyndeton
• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Martin Luther King Junior's use of the phrase "I have a dream" is an example of what strategy?

• Anaphora
• Chiasmus
• Litotes
• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Logos means....

• appealing to emotion
• appealing to logic
• appealing to credibility
• appealing to an author

Which one is NOT part of the rhetorical triangle

• audience
• subject
• speaker
• author

The reason an author writes a text is called....

• the audience
• the author's message
• the author's purpose
• the canon