Aeneid Rhetorical Devices

Question 0

Alliteration

Answer 0

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 2

Asyndeton

Answer 2

Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words

Question 3

Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions

Question 4

Aposiopesis

Answer 4

A form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion or modesty

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

Question 7

Caesura

Answer 7

A pause between words occurring within a metrical foot; the effect at the principal caesuranin a line of verse (generally within the third foot, or in both the second and fourth, in the dactylic hexameter) is sometimes to emphasize the word immediately preceding or following

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

ABBA

Question 9

Ellipsis

Answer 9

Omission of one or more words necessary to the sense of a sentence but easily understood from the context; often a form of the verb sum or a speech verb.

Question 10

Enjambment

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Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence or clause to the beginning of the following verse, to emphasize an idea or create suspense

Question 11

Hendiadys

Answer 11

Use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier

Question 12

Hiatus

Answer 12

Lack of ellision where two syllables would ordinarily be elided, usually employed for emphasis at the end of a clause

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect

Question 14

Litotes

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Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed

Question 15

Metonymy

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Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in ‘they counted heads’)

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

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Using words that imitate yhe sound they denote

Question 17

Personification

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Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing

Question 18

Pleonasm

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Using more worss than necessary

Question 19

Praeteritio

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Pretended omission for rhetorical effect

Question 20

Prolepsis

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The anticipation, in adjective or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb; also, the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent

Question 21

Synchysis

Answer 21

ABAB

Question 22

Tmesis

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The separation of a compound word into two parts

Question 23

Zeugma

Answer 23

Two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them