Rhetorical Devices
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as. ex: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is a simile
Rhetorical Device that compares two unrelated things that cannot be literally applicable by saying one is the other
What is metaphor?
What is a call to action?
What device is the phrase time is a thief?
What is metaphor?
What rhetorical device is it when commercials include sad/dying dogs to evoke emotions from the viewer?
What is pathos?
The three main types of rhetorical appeals
What is ethos, pathos, and logos
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is hyperbole?
This rhetorical devices utilizes the same word or phrase several times throughout the work, but they are not all at the beginning of a sentence/line
What is repetition?
You are being disruptive and I say "how many times do I have to ask you to sit down?" What device am I using?
What is a rhetorical question?
You use this device everytime you speak. When you are talking to your friends, you might say, "lock in" but to your parents you may say "could you please pay attention." In these situations, what rhetorical device are you changing to appeal better to your audience?
What is diction/word choice?
What is the device that involves asking a question for an effect, not requiring an actual answer?
What is a rhetorical question?
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known. ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
What is an allusion?
Devices that places two unrelated things right next to each other to highlight their differences, create irony, or to produce a dramatic effect
What is juxtaposition?
A car commercial that emphasizes how many of their vehicles are still on the road after ten years through statistics is utilizing what?
What is logos?
What device is "I wandered lonely as a cloud?"
What is simile?
The discrepancy between appearance and reality: the three types are situational, dramatic, and verbal
What is irony?
The voice and attitude an author chooses to project. You usually describe this using an adjective
What is tone?
This rhetorical device involves an expression that has unusual meaning. ex: To kick the bucket, to break a leg...
What is an idiom?
A pilot who has a fear of heights is an example of one type of this rhetorical device.
What is irony?
What rhetorical device does Shakespeare use in the following line? The FANCY name...
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes...
What is alliteration?
This device refers to the way an author chooses to join word into phrases and sentences.
What is syntax?
This rhetorical device is a subtype of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repition of words at the beginning of phrases. ex:The I have a dream speech.
What is anaphora?
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity
What is a paradox?
During an argument someone says, "fair is foul, and foul is fair" to justify their actions. What is this an example of?
What is an allusion?
A real life example of this device would be a beautiful modern skyscraper being right next door to an old, gothic cathedral. When describing their proximity, you may say the two are?
What is juxtaposed?