Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Story with another meaning

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Repetition of consonants

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of the same word or phrase

Question 4

Aposiopesis

Answer 4

Breaking off a speech

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

Talking to someone not there

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

No conjunctions

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

Arrangement of words that follows pattern of ABBA

-embracing/surrounding

Question 9

Ecphrasis

Answer 9

Digression based on art

Question 10

Ellipsis

Answer 10

Leaving out a word that would be understood (verb to be)

Question 11

Enjambment

Answer 11

Key word jammed into the next line

Question 12

Hendiadys

Answer 12

Two words used to express one idea

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

Extraordinary exaggeration

Question 14

Hysteron proteron

Answer 14

Inversion of logical order

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

Opposite of what is stated or expected

Question 16

Litotes

Answer 16

Double negative

Question 17

Metaphor

Answer 17

Comparison not using like or as

Question 18

Metonymy

Answer 18

Use of one word for a related word

Question 19

Onomatopoeia

Answer 19

Sound to sense

Question 20

Oxymoron

Answer 20

Apparent contradiction

Question 21

Personification

Answer 21

Human characteristics to inanimate object

Question 22

Pleonasm

Answer 22

Extra words used that are unnecessary

Question 23

Polysyndeton

Answer 23

Lots of conjunctives

Question 24

Praeteritio

Answer 24

Emphasize a point by disregarding it

Mention by saying you’re not going to mention

Question 25

Prolepsis

Answer 25

Anticipation of a things existence (foreshadowing)

Question 26

Prosopopoiea

Answer 26

Making up a speech for someone absent

Question 27

Simile

Answer 27

Comparison of two things using like or as

Question 28

Synchesis

Answer 28

Interlocked word order ABAB | -connectal

Question 29

Synecdoche

Answer 29

A part of the whole

Question 30

Tmesis

Answer 30

Cutting a word in half and distributing it within the sentence -usually postquam

Question 31

Transferred epithet

Answer 31

A word grammatically agrees with one word and logically goes with another word

Question 32

Tricolon crescens (crescendo)

Answer 32

Series of three that parallel in some way | -each part of the group gets larger as it goes

Question 33

Zeugma

Answer 33

A verb translated figuratively and literally

Question 34

Hyperbaton

Answer 34

Unusual word order

Question 35

Rhetorical question

Answer 35

Question without expected answer