Rhetorical Devices (Vocabulary)
Authored by Maryann Camacho
English
8th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
_________ is
a statement in support of a particular truth, fact, or claim.
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
Personification
Simile
Parallelism
Irony
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
3.
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1 min • 1 pt
_____is a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration used for either serious or comic effect.
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CCSS.L.11-12.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A comparison between two things intended to show how they are alike.
Simle
Analogy
Assonance
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
5.
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1 min • 1 pt
______is the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning.
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CCSS.L.8.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.
Imagery
Irony
Oxymoron
Jargon
7.
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1 min • 1 pt
____is the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group.
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CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
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