Rhetorical Devices

Complete the pun: Broken pencils are...

• Wood

• Pointless

Dunkin Doughnuts, Coca-Cola and Bed Bath and Beyond are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Allusion is...

• a question without an answer

• a short, entertain account

• a magic trick

• a reference to a person, text, event, or well-known piece of pop culture

A rhetorical question requires an answer.

• No

• Yes

A hyperbole is an exaggeration that is obvious and not supposed to be taken literally.

• True

• False

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Repetition is...

• asking a question of an audience

• comparing two different items

• using facts or statistics

• repeating words or phrases for emphasis

A simile is...

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• A comparison that uses like or as

• Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact

• Connecting two things

It is the imagery use to address our sense of vision. In that way, the reader can visualize what is happening in the story in her or his own mind.

• visual imagery

• sound imagery

• taste imagery

• auditory imagery

What is dramatic irony?

• when the speaker says one thing and means the opposite

• a contrast between what a character expects and what really happens

• the reader or viewer knows more than the characters in the story

• none of the above