Figures of Speech/Forms and Tropes

Question 1

Phrasing is identical yet reversed “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” means “turn about” is a kind of chiasmus.

Answer 1

Antimetabole

Question 2

“Fastening on” energetic, multiple repetition

“Never, never, never, never, never!”

Answer 2

Epizeusxis (Epizefskis)

Question 3

Repetition in an initial position “carrying back”
“The time of the seasons and the constellations
The time of milking and the time of harvest
The time of the coupling of man and woman…”

Answer 3

Anaphora

Question 4

“turning away” repetition at the end of a line, final position (kind of like rhyme)
“Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
fair cheeks and fine bodies;
fortitude as never before
frankness as never before…”

Answer 4

Epistrophe

Question 5

“intertwining” repetition at both beginning and end (is rare)
“we are the hollow men
we are the stuffed men”

Answer 5

Symploce

Question 6

“resumption” Almost the same as symploce, but at ends of phrases, not just lines
repetition at beginning and end.
“All day, the same our postures were,
And we said nothing all the day”

Answer 6

Epanalepsis

Question 7

Doubling back, heel-treading verse, the end of the line begins the next line
“For I have loved long, I crave reward,
Reward me not unkindly: think on kindness,
Kindness becometh those of high regard-“

Answer 7

Anadiplosis

Question 8

repetition of same root word with different grammatical inflection
“Love is not Love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove”

Answer 8

Polyptoton

Question 9

setting straight, to make author seem more honest, immediate correction of a word or phrase just used
“These hedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild”

Answer 9

Epanorthosis

Question 10

Circumlocution, a word or phrase describing a thing without naming it, sort of like metaphors for names of things “bone house” for body “whale road” for sea, “stringed mahogany” for guitar, etc.

Answer 10

Periphrasis

Question 11

redundant adjectives “numberless infinities”, means excess

Answer 11

Pleonasm

Question 12

“Heap” a word heap, accumulation of words or phrases
“All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain” think John Donne

Answer 12

Congeries

Question 13

Many connections, repeats the connective between each term in a series, like lots of conjunctions and….and…and…
“Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope,
And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope.”

Answer 13

Polysyndeton

Question 14

Without connections, listing without conjunctions
“I may, I must, I can, I will, I do,”
“I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!”

Answer 14

Asyndeton

Question 15

“yoking” special kind of ellipsis in which a single verb governs more than one object
“Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea.”
(take for both tea and counsel)

Answer 15

Zeugma, pronounced “zefma”

Question 16

“turning away” figure of address, like talking to someone directly, calling on the muses, talking to the audience directly, usually has to be a change in address, turning away or “aside” to comment, admonish, call upon, etc.

Answer 16

Apostrophe

Question 17

Vigorous call to action, direct order, command
“To arms!”
“Be thou me, impetuous one!”

Answer 17

Proclees

Question 18

“Inversion” Yoda speak, changing the grammar to too old english, altering grammar to an effect
“Numb were the beadsman’s fingers, while he told
His rosary”

Answer 18

Both Hyperbaton and Anastrophe

Question 19

Becoming silent, leave a sentence unfinished, break it off, like a long dash or a blank space
“Or else ‘twere easy to withdraw her waist;
But then, the situation had its charm,
And then- God knows what next-I can’t go on…”

Answer 19

Aposiopesis

Question 20

Criss-crossing, repeats terms in reverse order

“Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d”

Answer 20

Chiasmus