Rhetorical Terms and Appeals

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The purposeful repetition of conjunctions in a sentence.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The purposeful omission of conjunctions in a sentence.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

​Language that evokes any of the five senses.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A direct comparison that states on thing is another.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison that states one thing is like another.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An extreme overstatement

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3