Rhetorical Devices

a reference to another text or assumed knowledge of a reference to a book, movie, the Bible or Greek Mythology

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a successive phrases, clauses, or lines

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Antistrophe

a stated comparison between two unlike things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

a deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration; intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

What is a rhetorical question?

• A question that does NOT need to be answered.

• A random question asked in adverts.

• A question that NEEDS to be answered.

Rhetorical questions are literal.

• True

• False

What is a rhetorical question?

• It's what you call a turkey after you turn it inside out and stuff it full of applesauce

• It's a question that you're expecting an answer from

• It's a type of dental floss

• It's a question that you ask to prove a point(no answer expected)

Rhetorical questions are literal.

• True

• False

A rhetorical question _____________

• requires and answer

• Does not require an answer

a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Repetition