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Rhetorical Devices
Review
100

Comparing two objects using like or as.

Simile

100
Comparing two objects without using like or as
Metaphor
100
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
100

Appeal to Emotion

Pathos

100

A person, place, or thing

Noun

200

Using extreme exaggeration.

Hyperbole

200
What are your five senses?
Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
200
The car lights blinked in the distance.
Personification
200

Appeal to Data/Facts

Logos

200

A word that describes a noun or pronoun. Ex. The GREEN grass grew after the rain.

Adjective

300
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
Personification
300
Words that imitate the sounds they make
Onomatopoeia
300

Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!

Onomatopoeia

300

Appeal to character/expert

Ethos

300

A word that shows action in a sentence.

Verb

400
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together
Alliteration
400
Using a play on words. (Someone attempting to be funny, but it usually is not.)
Pun
400
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die. (Could it really have been THAT cold?)
Hyperbole
400

Appeal to specific timing or occasion

Kairos
400

A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another of itself. Ex. The turtle SLOWLY crossed the street.

Adverb

500
A figure of speech that does not literally mean what it says. It has usually been passed down from generation to generation.
Idiom
500

The term for all of the devices a writer uses to give the reader a better description and understanding of what is happening in the story or poem. We are studying this RIGHT NOW!

Figurative Language or Literary Devices

500
The early bird get the worm.
Idiom
500

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Rhetoric

500

The big blue bird flew across the bridge.

alliteration