Rhetorical Devices Review

Using strongly contrasting words, images, or ideas

• antithesis

• juxtaposition

• restatement

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Repeating an idea using the same words

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• repetition

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This appeal represents credibility or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion by the character involved

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Repeating grammatical structures

• antithesis

• parallelism

• allusion

• restatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Asking a question with an obvious answer

• repetition

• charged words

• anthropomorphism

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An appeal to the audience's emotions

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Words that carry strong emotional connotations

• metonymy

• allusion

• charged words

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Reference to something (literature, current events, etc.) outside the work itself

• charged words

• allusion

• antithesis

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An argument that appeals to an audience's sense of logic or reason

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Repeating an idea using DIFFERENT words

• charged words

• epistrophe

• repetition

• restatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4