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Rhetorical Examples
AP Language and Composition Rhetorical Device Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Don't be a brutus to my Caesar. | Allusion |
| Her smile was as sweet as sugar | Figurative Language |
| Appeal to idealism, beauty, humor, or nostalgia | Pathos |
| Humane and Considerate | Ethos |
| Facts and Statistics | Logos |
| Sir, at long last, have you no decency? | Rhetorical Question |
| war is the enemy. War is the murderer of children. war is the ravager of marriages. | Anaphora |
| It was the best of times, the worst of times | Parallelism |
| I came, I saw, I conquered | Parellelism |
| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere. | Juxtaposition |
| I love writers who use vivid descriptions. | Complex Sentence |
| The cat escaped because you left the door unlocked. | Complex Sentence |
| I love books, but I hate the Scarlett Letter. | Compound Sentence |
| I have to get a good grade on this test, so I am making flash cards. | Compound Sentence |
| Some students like to study in the morning. | Simple Sentence |
| Close the door! | Imperative |
| The door is closed. | Declarative |