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Rhetorical Devices

10th Grade · English · Easy · about 10 minutes

L.9-10.5 | Rhetorical Devices - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6 — Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.6 — Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading

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