Rhetorical devices

Repetiton of initial consonant sounds, i.e.; "trials and tribulations"

• anaphora

• alliteration

• parallelism

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

Extreme exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Repetition of a phrase to create emphasis--"One hundred years later..." (from I Have a Dream speech)

• anaphora

• rhetorical quesstion

• hyperbole

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Appeal to emotion

• personification

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Biased language used to create dramatic effect

• logos

• diction

• alliteration

• loaded language

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Rhetorical tool used to establish credibility of the speaker or writer

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"

• ethos

• logos

• rhetorical question

• anaphora

"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation..."

• simile

• metaphor

• anaphora

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"I have a dream that down in Atlanta, with its vicious racists..."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• loaded language

• simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"...black men as well as white men would be endowed with the inalienable rights of 'Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...'"

• allusion

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• logos

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4