Assignment: Devices
Identifying Rhetorical Devices
AP Language
Directions: Carefully read each of the following statements and identify the rhetorical
device/figure of speech contained in each. Some may contain more than one device.
You may choose among these terms:
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Epithet
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Metonymy/Synecdoche
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Parenthesis
Personification
Rhetorical Question
Simile
Understatement/Litotes
1. The village went to sleep, window by window. (Edmund Gilligan)
2. You are as cold and pitiless as your own marble. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
3. But if possibility of evil be to exclude good, no good ever can be done. (Samuel
Johnson)
4. Frankly, my dear, I don't feel like dining out.
5. The true nature of man, his true good, true virtue, an true religion are things which
cannot be known separately. (Blaise Pascal)
6. Clang battleaxes, and crash brand! Let the King reign. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
7. His first irresistible notion was that the whole China Sea had climbed on the bridge.
(Joseph Conrad)
8. Roll on, thou dark blue ocean, roll. (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
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Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." a man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there. "rainsford! " screamed the general. "how in god's name did you get here? " "swam," said rainsford. "i found it quicker than walking through the jungle." the general sucked in his breath and smiled. "i congratulate you," he said. "you have won the game." rainsford did not smile. "i am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "get ready, general zaroff." the general made one of his deepest bows. "i see," he said. "splendid! one of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. the other will sleep in this very excellent bed. on guard, rainsford." . . he had never slept in a better bed, rainsford decided. adrian is writing an essay about "the most dangerous game.” which detail from the excerpt best supports his idea that rainsford is unchanged and still feels that the hunter is justified in killing the hunted? a man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there. "swam," said rainsford. "i found it quicker than walking through the jungle." rainsford did not smile. "i am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "get ready, general zaroff." he had never slept in a better bed, rainsford decided.

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper

Which best describes why regina tells the group, “i explained to ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”? to make horace feel as though he deserves a portion of the credit to reassure ben that she was telling the truth about her motives to convince ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said to pacify horace before he gets angry about what she has done mark this and return