Figure Of Speech

Question 1

Style

Answer 1

the manner in which an author writes a work

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Effect when two or more words in succession begin with the same sound

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of key word/phrase

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Similarity of vowel sounds in adjacent words

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

Coordinate elements without a connective (atque, que, et)

Question 6

Polysndeton

Answer 6

More conjunctions than are necessary

Question 7

Litotes

Answer 7

Understatement of a sense through a double negative

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

Substitution of an object for that of a related object

Question 9

Synedoche

Answer 9

Part for the whole

Walls>city

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Abstract concept or object given human characteristics

Question 11

Rhetorical question

Answer 11

Question asked not for information but to create an effect

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Comparing not using like or as

Question 13

Allusion

Answer 13

Reference to some factor outside of a piece of writing

Question 14

Allusion

Answer 14

Reference to some factor outside of a piece of writing

Question 15

Apostrophe

Answer 15

Address to some person/thing not present

Question 16

Chiasmus

Answer 16

Arrangement of words in ABBA word order

Question 17

Ellipsis

Answer 17

Omission of one or more words to the sense of a sentence but easily understood from the context

Question 18

Enjambement

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Synchesis

Answer 19

Arrangement of words in ABAB word order; emphasizing close connection between two thoughts

Question 20

Onomatopoeia

Answer 20

Use of words sounds suggest their meaning