Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices 2
Name the Author
Name the Author 2
From What Book?
100
A very strong or over exaggeration
What is hyperbole
100
A metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem
What is an Extended Metaphor
100
Romeo and Juliet
Who is Willie Shakespeare
100
A Tale of Two Cities
Who is Charles Dickens
100
Piggy
What is Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
200
Repetition of sentences using the same grammatical structure emphasizing all aspects of the sentence equally
What is Parrallel Structure or Parallelism
200
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
What is Allusion
200
Of Mice and Men
Who is John Steinbeck (also wrote Grapes of Wrath)
200
The Great Gatsby
Who is Scott Fitzgerald
200
Tom Robinson
What is To Kill A Mockingbird
300
An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject of actuality
What is Allegory
300
An extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc. that share similarity to make a point
What is Analogy
300
A Raisin in the Sun
Who is Langston Hughes
300
The Odyssey
Who is Homer
300
Judge Thatcher
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
400
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines
What is Anaphora
400
Placing two or more things side by side for comparison or contrast
What is Juxtaposition
400
To Kill A Mockingbird
Who is Harper Lee
400
The Hobbit
Who is J.R. Tolkien
400
Gremio
What is The Taming of the Shrew
500
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it (Crown represents King)
What is Metonymy
500
The omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
What is Ellipsis
500
Beau Fleuve
Who is Susan Woodward
500
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain
500
Agamemnon
What is The Odyssey
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