Rhetorical Devices 1
Rhetorical Devices 2
Rhetorical Devices 3
Rhetorical Devices 4
Rhetorical Devices 5
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What is a simile?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
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What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
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What is a hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration.
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What is repetition?
A word/phrase is repeated more than once for emphasis
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What is Alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of successive words.
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What is Assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of successive words.
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What is Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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What is an allusion?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
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what is loaded language
Loaded language uses words and phrases with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience beyond their literal meaning
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What is onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds
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What is oxymoron
Combination of contradictory terms (Living dead; Deafening silence)
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What is parallelism
Similar structure in phrases or sentences
Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered.
Ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.
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What is an Anecdote
A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature
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What is Imagery
Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses.
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What is connotation
The feeling/idea that is implied by a word.
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What is Asyndeton
The practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list, it gives a more extemporaneous effect and suggests the list may be incomplete. For example, "He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing."
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What is a flashback?
Adevice that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past
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What is a foreshadow/foreshadowing
A literary device where an author gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story.
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What is propaganda?
Information or rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution
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What is Nostalgia
Desire to return in thought or fact to a former time
Example: In the America I grew up in, people respected the flag…you may not have always agreed with what was going on…but you respected the flag.
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What is polysyndeton
The repetition of coordinating conjunctions (For, and, nor, but, or, yet)
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What is Hypophora?
A literary device when the writer/speaker asks a question and then answers their own question.
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What is anaphora?
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive paragraphs/clauses.
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What is antithesis
Placing two contrasting ideas side by side for a clear distinction.
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
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What is a Paradox
a literary device that presents a statement or situation that appears self-contradictory but contains a deeper, often more complex truth
Example: I must be cruel to be kind
Example: The beginning of the end