Rhetorical Devices
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Select the word that matches the definition or the quote.
Topics of this game:
- Comparing a difficult or known idea to something familiar
- Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
- Comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
- Deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point
- Repetition of an initial consonant sound
- Repeating words or similarly structuring phrases or clauses
- Joining two contrasting ideas together, often in parallel structure
- A question that does not require an answer because the speaker sees the answer as obvious
- "Withdrawal of U.S. troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded."
- "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
- "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation...."
- "The things you don't know would fill a whole library and leave room for a few pamphlets."
- "...let us go forth to lead the land that we love..."
- "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn."
- "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
- "Will we be extremists for hate or for love?"
