Rhetorical Devices - Writing

What is a fact or piece of data obtained from numerical information?

A direct comparison of something to something else

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is a sentence which ends with an exclamation mark?

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Repetition of the same word/phrase at the start of sentences/clauses:

• epistrophe

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A set or succession of three similar things:

• triplet

• tripulet

• triplette

• tripulete

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A sentence that give a command:

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is it called when two contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly?

• I am alone; empty.

• I am alone. I am; empty.

• I am alone; I am empty.

• I am alone; and I am empty

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A group of words and phrases associated with a particular theme:

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Repeating words or phrases for specific effect:

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4