Rhetorical Devices
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Commonly Confused Words
100
I refer to something outside of the text like a book, myth, place, work of art, etc.
What is allusion? 
100
By posting the jump on YouTube, he hoped to farther/further his stuntman career.
What is farther?
100
MJ might move Monday morning.
What is an Alliteration?
100
Among/Between my many friends, I’m known as the loudest of us all.
What is among?
100
My grandma said I was a site/sight for sore eyes.
What is sight?
200
I exaggerate or overstate too much.
What is hyperbole? 
200
Asking a question not expecting the audience to answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
Giving nonhuman objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction.
What is apostrophe?
200
Prehistoric dragonflies had wings that measured among/between one and two feet long.
What is between? 
300
I like repeating the same vowel sound in neighboring words.
What is assonance?
300
My dentist says chocolate is better than/then gummy treats.
What is than? 
300
Putting two words side by side to create a specific effect. For example, "I was the only person there whose skin was black, white people all around me pretending that I didn't exist."
What is juxtaposition?
300
Our amount/number of web traffic tripled after the new ad went viral.
What is amount?
300
My friends passed/past the Rubik’s Cube around, but none of us could solve it.
What is passed?
400
I am a rhetorical device in which two contradictory words are placed next to each other.
What is an oxymoron?
400
When I passed/past my driving test, my parents’ auto insurance doubled.
What is passed?
400
Matching sentence structure. For example, "His lectures were so exact that you needed a dictionary in your right hand and a thesaurus in your left hand."
What is parallel structure?
400
I was surprised at how deeply my speech affected/effected my classmates.
What is affected?
400
Many people believe coffee has a great affect/effect on their productivity.
What is effect?
500
A play on words, usually involving more than one meaning of the word.
What is a pun? 
500
The early bird catches the worm.
What is consonance?
500
Words that mimic sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This ice cream brand claims to have fewer/less calories than other brands.
What is fewer? 
500
There were fewer/less LEGO bricks in my brother’s room after he vacuumed the carpet.
What is fewer?