Rhetorical Devices English I

Of what type rhetorical device is this example?

• hyperbole

• euphemism

• personification

• anaphora

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

• apostrophe

• paralipsis

• polysyndeton

• understatement

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The following are examples of what rhetorical device:

• Original copy
• Disgustingly delicious
• Small crowd

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Name the rhetorical device.

“We’ve got the iPod, best music player in the world. We’ve got the iPod Nanos, brand new models, colors are back. We’ve got the amazing new iPod Shuffle.”

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Name the rhetorical device.

"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Name the rhetorical device.

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Epistrophe

• Rhetorical Question

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Name the rhetorical device.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Understatement

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Name the rhetorical device.

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet,

And the river jumps over the mountain

And the salmon sing in the street,

I'll love you till the ocean

Is folded and hung up to dry

And the seven stars go squawking

Like geese about the sky.”

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Name the rhetorical device.

"Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends."

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

• Understatement

• Verbal Irony

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Name 2 rhetorical devices.

"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We're torn by division, wanting unity."

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Parallelism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5