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Speaking to Elephants – the language of persuasion

Study the rhetorical devices terminology, definitions, and examples; then play a matching game
by cutting out the cards and pairing them again correctly. How many can you remember?

Alliteration

Allusion

Amplification

Analogy
Anaphora

Anadiplosis

Anastrophe

Anecdote

Antithesis
Asyndeton

Chiasmus

Diacope

Distinctio

Eponym
Ethos

Expletive

Hyperbole

Hyperphora

Litotes
Logos

Meiosis

Mesodiplosis

Parallelism

Pathos
Polysyndeton

Symploce

Tricolon

Varied sentence
length

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