English 4 Rhetorical Devices

Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence:

"For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best."- John F. Kennedy

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• hyperbole

• apposition

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

• antithesis

• litotes

• epistrophe

• anaphora

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• apposition

• litotes

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

“Speech is silver, but silence is gold.”

• apposition

• antithesis

• epistrophe

• anaphora

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

The fastest man ever timed, Usain Bolt is competing in Rio this summer.

• epsistrophe

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• apposition

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

They don’t exactly have an ordinary relationship.

• apposition

• anaphora

• litotes

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

No guts, no glory.

• litotes

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right …"

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• litotes

• apposition

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

She's older than dirt.

• litotes

• apposition

• hyperbole

• epistrophe

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:

In truth, I can’t argue with any of your assertions.

• anaphora

• antithesis

• hyperbole

• litotes