Rhetorical Devices Lessons

What is the allusion focusing on in the sentence below?

• How potato chips are awesome and everyone should eat them!

• Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's habit. Therefore, this sentence is referencing someone's habit of eating potato chips.

• Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's passion. Therefore, this sentence is referencing that even though the person is on a diet they steal cheat and eat potato chips because they love them so much.

• Achilles heel is an allusion for a person's weakness. In this case, potato chips is the person's weakness which diminishes the success of their diet.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Can you put a price tag on your family's security? Don't you want to guarantee that your family is going to be safe? Isn't it worth a few dollars more to protect them in one of the safest cars ever built?

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

OXYMORON

• A comparison between two things that uses like or as

• A connection that is made between two things

• The combination of two words of opposite meaning

• Words that imitate the sound they describe

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

METAPHOR

• A comparison between two things that uses like or as

• An exaggeration

• Repeating words or phrases for emphasis

• A comparison between two things that does not use like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Two ideas, places, or characters placed beside each other for contrasting effect.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which appeal proves the speaker can be trusted based on character or qualifications?

• ethos

• logos

• 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

Which appeal persuades to the audiences emotions and feelings.

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5