Language Arts Lesson 6
Writing Strategies: Organization and Focus (Grades 9-12)

Instruction 6-6

How to Use Rhetorical Devices (Grades 11-12)

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html (Examples with definition)

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/repetition.html (Repetition)

Now let's do Practice Exercise 6-6 (top) (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

Directions: Complete the Practice Exercise 6-6 below. Consult the Answer Key below for answers once you finish. Review the Instruction material which relates to any questions you do not get correct.

Name the rhetorical concept illustrated by the quotation.

1. "You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of colligenous junk." (The Wizard of Oz)
     
2. As I was walking up the stair
   I met a man who wasn't there
   He wasn't there again today
   I wish that man would go away.
    
3. "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." (Winston Churchill)
    
4. "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. . . . Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." (Mark Twain)
    
5. "All men have my blood, and I have all men's." (Emerson, Self-Reliance)
   "It is not what more time can do for you, it is what you can do with more time."
   "There is no excuse for not working hard, for working hard leaves no excuses."

Answer Key (top) (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

1. alliteration
    
2. anadiplosis
    
3. anaphora
    
4. antithesis
    
5. chiasmus

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