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What is the definition of rhetorical question?
a question asked to make a point or have a dramatic effect, not to literally be answered
"Reduce, reuse, recycle"
What rhetorical device is this an example of?
Asyndeton
"It's rained so much it's like the Noah's ark story outside."
What device is this
allusion
Which is an example of repetition
"heart to heart" "give me liberty or give me death"
"heart to heart"
Which one is an example of rhetorical question?
"Is this your jacket?"
"What did you do today?"
"Are you guys really not trying?"
"Are you guys really not trying?"
What is the definition of anaphora?
Repition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of clauses, sentences, or lines in a row.
"Mike likes to ride"
This is an example of what?
assonance
What word matches this definition?
reference to something outside the text like a person, place, event, part of history, or even another text
allusion
Whats the definition for aphorism
a saying, phrase, or observation that contains a general truth/opinion
"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"
Is and example of what rhetorical device?
Anaphora
What are two examples of parallelism?
"He came quickly, fought brutally, and won honestly."
"You should always care about others, you should always appreciate your friends and family, and you should always love yourself."
"Keeps going. And going. And going."
Is an example of what rhetorical device?
Epistrophe
What is this an example of?
"The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."
assonance
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What rhetorical device is this?
asyndeton