Rhetorical Device Challenge

A reference to a person, place, event or passage from a work of literature (like the bible), history, pop culture, or other source that is expected to be recognized by the audience (it will not be obscure).

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

• anaphora

Repetition of a word or

phrase at the BEGINNING of

successive clauses.

• anaphora

• epiphora

• juxtaposition

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A literary technique in which conjunctions (and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession.

• polysyndeton

• asyndeton

• parallelism

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Positioning two concepts or ideas close together to emphasize similarities or differences.

• juxtaposition

• anadiplosis

• allusion

• euphemism

Using a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

• euphemism

• polysyndeton

• synecdoche

• epiphora

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The comparison of two things (double comparison), which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea.

• analogy

• metaphor

• simile

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A short accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident. This story is usually from the speaker’s

life (not always) but at best is a related story of fact.

• anecdote

• allusion

• antithesis

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3

Anaphora repeats a word or phrase at the ________ of sentences or clauses.

Epiphora repeats a word or phrase at the ________ of sentences or clauses.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When anaphora and epiphora are combined to create a repeating, similar structure of sentences, _________ is created.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A