Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of same letter at beginning of successive words or syllables

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of a word, for emphasis, at beginning of successive phrases or clauses

Question 3

Anastrophe

Answer 3

Inversion of the usual order of words, such as placing a preposition after, instead of before, the word it governs

Question 4

Aposiopesis

Answer 4

An abrupt pause in a sentence for rhetorical effect

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

Omission of conjunctions where one would normally expect them

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

Arrangement of pairs of words in reverse, or criss-cross order

Question 7

Ellipsis

Answer 7

Omission of words necessary to grammatical structure of sentence and easily supplied from the context

Question 8

Hendiadys

Answer 8

Use of two nouns connected by et instead of single modified noun

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggeration for rhetorical effect

Question 10

Hysteron Proteron

Answer 10

Reversal of natural or logical order of ideas; literally putting “last things first”

Question 11

Litotes

Answer 11

Affirming of something by denying its; a double negative

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Implied simile or comparison, without use of some word meaning “as” or “like”

Question 13

Metonymy

Answer 13

Substitution of one word for another that it suggests

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

Use of word whose sound suggests meaning

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

Use in combination of apparently contradictory words

Question 16

Personification

Answer 16

Attributing human characteristics to inanimate or impersonal things

Question 17

Pleonasm

Answer 17

Use of superfluous words

Question 18

Polysyndeton

Answer 18

Use of unnecessary conjunctions

Question 19

Prolepsis (Anticipation)

Answer 19

Use of word sooner than logically appropiate

Question 20

Simile

Answer 20

An expressed comparison introduced by some word meaning “as” or “like” such as similis, qualis, or velut

Question 21

Synecdoche

Answer 21

Use of part of object to represent entire object

Question 22

Tmesis

Answer 22

Separation of compound word by one or more intervening words

Question 23

Zeugma

Answer 23

Use of word in two conjunctions, though strictly applicable only to one