Identify
This type of rhetorical device compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This type of rhetorical device compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Identify the device in the following sentence
"I slept for 1000 hours yesterday"
What is hyperbole
Identify what the following would be an example of
In literature, colors often represent events or emotions. For example, the color black often represents death and darkness while green can represent nature, luck, or envy
What is symbolism?
This rhetorical appeal is meant to appeal to emotions
What is pathos?
This device gives human-like characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
This device is an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Identify the device in the excerpt below
"It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages
with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with
your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent
music."
-Hamlet
What is a simile?
Identify the device in the following excerpt
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
-Emily Dickinson
What is personification?
This rhetorical appeal is meant to appeal to logic/reasoning
What is logos?
This device uses one thing to represent another
What is symbolism?
This type of rhetorical device repeats the same sounds in most or all the words in a sentence
What is alliteration?
Identify the device in the following excerpt
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
-Macbeth
What is oxymoron?
Identify the device in the following excerpt
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”
-Romeo
What is a metaphor?
This rhetorical appeal is meant to appeal to credibility
What is ethos?
What is oxymoron?
A reference to something else, whether it be literature, pop culture, etc
What is an allusion?
The following sentence uses which device
"The production manager was asked to write his report quickly, accurately, and thoroughly.
What is parallelism?
Identify the device in the following excerpt
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes"
What is alliteration?
Identify the rhetorical appeal being used in the following excerpt
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
-Brutus
What is Ethos?
This device uses repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences/clauses
What is anaphora?
This device refers to similar grammatical structure within a sentence
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
Identify the device in the following excerpt
"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
-MLK
What is an allusion
Identify the device the following excerpt uses
"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!"
-King John II
What is anaphora
Identify the rhetorical appeal being used in the excerpt below
Harry Potter: "You've made a mistake, I can't be a wizard. I mean, I'm just Harry, just Harry."
Hagrid: "Well, just Harry, did you ever make anything happen? Anything you couldn't explain, when you were angry or scared?"
What is logos?