Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• allusion

A comparison between two things [Simile/Metaphor/Personification]

• allusion

• analogy

• aphorism

Repetition of successive lines in separate sentences of phrases in a text.

• aphorism

• anecdote

• anaphora

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 6:

A question that is asked without expecting an answer.

• rhetorical question

• allusion

• persuasion

MLK’s most famous speech uses ______ when he repeats the phrase “I have a dream” at the beginning of several sentences in a row.

judge the accuracy or quality of something​ (a)  

credibility or trustworthiness ​ (b)  

logical evidence ​ (c)  

to give evidence ​ (d)  

emotion/feeling ​ (e)  

• ethos

• logos

• assess

• cite

• pathos

The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech.

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• Simile

• Invective

• Analogy

Lesson-26: Analyzing Rhetorical Devices

Question 4:

A writer's choice of words; an important element in the writer's voice or style.

• diction

• vernacular

• examples