Enhancing Persuasion with Rhetorical Devices

What is the primary purpose of using rhetorical devices in public speaking?

• To confuse the audience

• To enhance the persuasiveness of the message

• To shorten the speech

• To complicate the message

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity?

• Rhyming

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What famous line did Johnnie Cochran use during O.J. Simpson's trial that exemplifies rhyming?

• Justice is blind

• If it doesn't fit, you must acquit

• If the glove fits, wear it

• A glove too tight, not right

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CCSS.RL.7.4

Which rhetorical device compares two unlike things directly, often using 'is'?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What does a simile use to make comparisons?

• Words 'like' or 'as'

• Direct statements

• Exaggeration

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which device is used to add emphasis or clarify a point by elaboration?

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Antithesis

• Amplification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device gives human characteristics to non-human elements?

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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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

Which structural rhetorical device involves the repetition of similar grammatical structures?

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Alliteration

• Amplification

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device contrasts two ideas to highlight differences?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

• Amplification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which example from Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech illustrates the use of parallelism?

• I have a dream

• Let freedom ring

• We shall overcome

• I believe

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4