Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical devices are techniques used to convey ideas through?

• Speech or writing

• Physical movements

• Intense staring

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Alliteration refers to what?

• Repeating any sound at the beginning of a series of words

• Repetitive consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words

• Repetitive vowel sounds at the end of a series of words

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A simile is a metaphor comparing things using what words?

• but, or

• no, yes

• like, as

• kind of, maybe

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which following sentence is hyperbole?

• Bears can lose over 30 percent of their body weight hibernating.

• It's important for adolescents to get the proper amount of rest each night.

• The plane landed like a leaf in the wind.

• I have been running around all day!

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tone is a rhetorical device in which the writer or speaker?

• Wants you to feel their emotions

• Tells you where the action is happening

• Compares two unlike things

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The lyrics "Wack MCs like that orange soda get crushed" are an example of what rhetorical device?

• Alliteration

• Mood

• Repetition

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Muhammad Ali read the poem about what it's like to be himself to Harvard University students. His world's shortest poem, "Me? Whee" (a word and sound effect only) is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Humor

• Repetition

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The following passage is an example of what rhetorical device: "The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell­ as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world." - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

• Humor

• Imagery

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5