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Rhetorical Devices Worksheet

Identify and analyze rhetorical devices in text for grade 10 ELA students.

Grade 10 ELA GrammarLanguage and VocabularyLanguageLiterary DevicesRhetorical Devices
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5.ACCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

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Rhetorical Devices Worksheet

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Read each question carefully and provide your best answer. This worksheet assesses your understanding and ability to identify various rhetorical devices.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest— For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men— Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.

1. Identify and explain one example of anaphora in the passage.

2. What rhetorical device is evident in the phrase "For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men"? Explain its effect.

3. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is known as  .

4. A statement that appears self-contradictory but contains a deeper truth is called a  .

5. The use of an exaggerated statement for emphasis or effect is known as  .

6. Which rhetorical device involves addressing an absent person or a personified abstraction?

a

Metaphor

b

Apostrophe

c

Allusion

d

Synecdoche

7. The phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of which rhetorical device?

a

Hyperbole

b

Metonymy

c

Irony

d

Paradox

8. Alliteration is the repetition of vowel sounds within a phrase or sentence.

T

True

F

False

9. Ethos refers to an appeal to emotion in rhetoric.

T

True

F

False

Match each rhetorical device with its definition.

10. Allusion

 

a. The use of a word or phrase that imitates the sound it represents.

11. Onomatopoeia

 

b. An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work.

12. Juxtaposition

 

c. Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast.