11.4.18.a

analyze how an author achieves specific effects and purposes using literary devices and figurative language (e.g., understatement, allusion, allegory, paradox)

rhetorical question;

understand that poets use techniques to evoke emotion in the reader.

rhyme (approximate, end, slant)

simile

rhetorical question

simile;

understand rhyme, rhythm, and sound elements

recognize that figurative language enriches text.

interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron, hyperbole, paradox) in context and analyze their role in the text.