Figures of Speech (Rhetoric)

Question 1

Define the figure:

Alliteration

Answer 1

Using words that start with the same letter in a sentence.

Question 2

Define the figure:

Polyptoton

Answer 2

Repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms.

Varied Case Usage

Question 3

Define the figure:

Antithesis

Answer 3

Start with a simple statement, then add an unexpected inversion.

The basis formula of antithesis is “X is Y, and not X is not Y.”

Opposites for Contrast

Question 4

Define the figure:

Merism

Answer 4

Where you don’t say what you’re talking about, and instead name all of its parts.

The Whole Divided into Parts

Question 5

Define the figure:

Blazon

Answer 5

Making a list of the beloved’s body parts and attaching similes to them (a form of extended merism).

The Dismemberment of the Beloved

Question 6

Define the figure:

Synaesthesia

Answer 6

A rhetorical device in which sense is described as another.

One Sense Describes Another

Question 7

Define the figure:

Aposiopesis

Answer 7

Trailing off. In English, it means use of ellipses or an em dash.

Sudden Silence (Ellipses/Em dash)

Question 8

Define the figure:

Hyperbaton

Answer 8

Putting words in an odd order.

Unexpected Word Order

Question 9

Define the figure:

Anadiplosis

Answer 9

Taking the last word of a clause and making it the first word in the next clause.

Reduplicated Word

Question 10

Define the figure:

Periodic Sentence

Answer 10

A big sentence that is not complete grammatically before the final clause or phrase.

Long, Suspenseful Sentence

Question 11

Define the figure:

Hypotaxis

Answer 11

Writing with unnaturally long sentences, generally with an excess of subordinate clauses.

Question 12

Define the figure:

Parataxis

Answer 12

Writing with short simple sentences.

Question 13

Define the figure:

Diacope

Answer 13

A verbal sandwich: a word or phrase is repeated after a brief interruption.

Verbal Sandwich (ABA Unit, alt.: AABA unit)

Question 14

Define the figure:

Rhetorical Question

Answer 14

A question that requires no answer, usually where the answer is too obvious to be stated.

Question 15

Define the figure:

Erotesis

Answer 15

Type of rhetorical question.

A question that’s not really a question at all.

Question 16

Define the figure:

Epiplexis

Answer 16

Type of rhetorical question.

A lament or insult asked as a question.

Question 17

Define the figure:

Anacoenosis

Answer 17

Type of rhetorical question.

The sort of question where a particular audience will respond in a particular expected way, a leading question.

Question 18

Define the figure:

Hypophora

Answer 18

Type of rhetorical question.

A rhetorical question that is immediately answered aloud, usually by the person who asked it.

Question 19

Define the figure:

Catechism

Answer 19

Type of rhetorical question.

A series of questions and answers about religion that you need to memorize.

Question 20

Define the figure:

Subjectio

Answer 20

Type of rhetorical question.

A series of questions asked by someone who already knows the answer, in a manner which asserts the asker’s authority and belittles the listener’s.

Question 21

Define the figure:

Aporia

Answer 21

Type of rhetorical question.

A rhetorical question in which the questioner genuinely doesn’t know the answer.

Question 22

Define the figure:

Unanswerable rhetorical question

Answer 22

Type of rhetorical question.

The sort where there is no answer, the sort where the questioner does not know the answer, does not expect anyone to know the answer, and does not expect to be informed.

Question 23

Define the figure:

Procatalepsis

Answer 23

Type of rhetorical question

The arguer foresees a possible objection to his/her argument, asks a question posing the objection, and immediately answers it.

Question 24

Define the figure:

Hendiadys

Answer 24

Take an adjective and a noun, and change the adjective into another noun.

Two for One

Question 25

Define the figure:

Epistrophe

Answer 25

Ending sentences, phrases, or paragraphs with the same word or phrase.

End Refrain

Question 26

Define the figure:

Tricolon

Answer 26

We see a pair and see a pattern. But add another word and get a tricolon.

Three in a Row (Rule of 3s)

Question 27

Define the figure:

Epizeuxis

Answer 27

Repeating a word immediately in exactly the same sense.

Triplet (The No No No or Yes Yes Yes)

Question 28

Define the figure:

Syllepsis

Answer 28

When one word is used in two (or more) incongruous ways.

Taking Together

Question 29

Define the figure:

Isocolon

Answer 29

Two clauses or sentences that are grammatically parallel, two sentences that are structurally the same.

Parallelism

Question 30

Define the figure:

Enallage

Answer 30

A deliberate grammar mistake.

Intentional Grammar Mistake

Question 31

Define the figure:

Zeugma

Answer 31

A series of clauses which use the same verb.

Yoking Together

Question 32

Define the figure:

Paradox

Answer 32

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition.

Question 33

Define the figure:

Veridical paradox

Answer 33

A phrase or statement that appears impossible, but is actually quite simple; i.e., a simple thought described in a surprising, paradoxical way.

Question 34

Define the figure:

Pun paradox

Answer 34

Word play paradox.

Question 35

Define the figure:

True paradox

Answer 35

A paradox that describes something impossible (except in language).

Question 36

Define the figure:

Chiasmus

Answer 36

Where the words of the first half are mirrored in the second half.

Verbal Symmetry (ABBA)

Question 37

Define the figure:

Assonance

Answer 37

Repeating a vowel sound.

Question 38

Define the figure:

The Fourteenth Rule

Answer 38

Using numbers can make just about anything sound ancient, significant, and mysterious.

Numbers are Mysterious

Question 39

Define the figure:

Catachresis

Answer 39

When a sentence is so startingly wrong that it’s right.

Strange Usage, Jazz Grammar

Question 40

Define the figure:

Litotes

Answer 40

Affirming something by denying its opposite. It’s a form of understatement-by-negative.

Ironic Understatement

Question 41

Define the figure:

Synecdoche

Answer 41

The extreme form of metonymy, where you become one of your body parts. You are your feet, your lips, or your liver.

A Part Represents the Whole

Question 42

Define the figure:

Historical synecdoche

Answer 42

A subset of synecdoches, where one part of the story stands for the whole things, not because it’s a symbol of it, but because it’s part of it.

Question 43

Define the figure:

Metonymy

Answer 43

When two things are connected because they are really physically connected.

Question 44

Define the figure:

Transferred epithets

Answer 44

When an adjective is applied to the wrong noun.

Question 45

Define the figure:

Pleonasm

Answer 45

The use of unneeded words that are superfluous and unnecessary in a sentence that doesn’t require them.

Verbiage

Question 46

Define the figure:

Tiny pleonasm

Answer 46

Unnecessary/ungrammatical extra words seeping in, making a subtle pleonasm.

Question 47

Define the figure:

Lazy pleonasm

Answer 47

The fake sort of language that advertisers use, making language more redundant and content free than it otherwise would be.

Question 48

Define the figure:

Literary pleonasm

Answer 48

Lovely pleonasm (excess verbiage) used for emphasis and amplification.

Question 49

Define the figure:

Epanalepsis

Answer 49

When you end where you began a sentence (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and end of a sentence or clause to emphasize circularity).

Circularity

Question 50

Define the figure:

Personification

Answer 50

The representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 51

Define the figure:

Hyperbole

Answer 51

Exaggeration.

Question 52

Define the figure:

Adynaton

Answer 52

An impossibility, which means “this is the case,” i.e., this is how it is.

The Never Ever Ever Statement

Question 53

Define the figure:

Prolepsis

Answer 53

Using the pronoun before saying what it refers to.

The Pronoun Goes First

Question 54

Define the figure:

Congeries

Answer 54

Latin for heap, and in rhetoric it applies to any piling of adjectives or nouns in a list.

Lengthy List

Question 55

Define the figure:

Scesis Onomaton

Answer 55

Sentences without a main verb.

Verbless Sentence

Question 56

Define the figure:

Anaphora

Answer 56

Starting every sentence with the same words.

Repeated Beginnings

Question 57

Identify the figure from the definition:

Using words that start with the same letter in a sentence.

Answer 57

Alliteration

Question 58

Identify the figure from the definition:

Repeated use of one word as different parts of speech or in different grammatical forms.

Varied Case Usage

Answer 58

Polyptoton

Question 59

Identify the figure from the definition:

Start with a simple statement, then add an unexpected inversion.

The basis formula is “X is Y, and not X is not Y.”

Opposites for Contrast

Answer 59

Antithesis

Question 60

Identify the figure from the definition:

Where you don’t say what you’re talking about, and instead name all of its parts.

The Whole Divided into Parts

Answer 60

Merism

Question 61

Identify the figure from the definition:

Making a list of the beloved’s body parts and attaching similes to them (a form of extended merism).

The Dismemberment of the Beloved

Answer 61

Blazon

Question 62

Identify the figure from the definition:

A rhetorical device in which sense is described as another.

One Sense Describes Another

Answer 62

Synaesthesia

Question 63

Identify the figure from the definition:

Trailing off. In English, it means use of ellipses or an em dash.

Sudden Silence (Ellipses/Em dash)

Answer 63

Aposiopesis

Question 64

Identify the figure from the definition:

Putting words in an odd order.

Unexpected Word Order

Answer 64

Hyperbaton

Question 65

Identify the figure from the definition:

Taking the last word of a clause and making it the first word in the next clause.

Reduplicated Word

Answer 65

Anadiplosis

Question 66

Identify the figure from the definition:

A big sentence that is not complete grammatically before the final clause or phrase.

Long, Suspenseful Sentence

Answer 66

Periodic Sentence

Question 67

Identify the figure from the definition:

Writing with unnaturally long sentences, generally with an excess of subordinate clauses.

Answer 67

Hypotaxis

Question 68

Identify the figure from the definition:

Writing with short simple sentences.

Answer 68

Parataxis

Question 69

Identify the figure from the definition:

A verbal sandwich: a word or phrase is repeated after a brief interruption.

Verbal Sandwich (ABA Unit, alt.: AABA unit)

Answer 69

Diacope

Question 70

Identify the figure from the definition:

A question that requires no answer, usually where the answer is too obvious to be stated.

Answer 70

Rhetorical Question

Question 71

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A question that’s not really a question at all.

Answer 71

Erotesis

Question 72

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A lament or insult asked as a question.

Answer 72

Epiplexis

Question 73

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

The sort of question where a particular audience will respond in a particular expected way, a leading question.

Answer 73

Anacoenosis

Question 74

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A rhetorical question that is immediately answered aloud, usually by the person who asked it.

Answer 74

Hypophora

Question 75

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A series of questions and answers about religion that you need to memorize.

Answer 75

Catechism

Question 76

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A series of questions asked by someone who already knows the answer, in a manner which asserts the asker’s authority and belittles the listener’s.

Answer 76

Subjectio

Question 77

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

A rhetorical question in which the questioner genuinely doesn’t know the answer.

Answer 77

Aporia

Question 78

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question.

The sort where there is no answer, the sort where the questioner does not know the answer, does not expect anyone to know the answer, and does not expect to be informed.

Answer 78

Unanswerable rhetorical question

Question 79

Identify the figure from the definition:

Type of rhetorical question

The arguer foresees a possible objection to his/her argument, asks a question posing the objection, and immediately answers it.

Answer 79

Procatalepsis

Question 80

Identify the figure from the definition:

Take an adjective and a noun, and change the adjective into another noun.

Two for One

Answer 80

Hendiadys

Question 81

Identify the figure from the definition:

Ending sentences, phrases, or paragraphs with the same word or phrase.

End Refrain

Answer 81

Epistrophe

Question 82

Identify the figure from the definition:

We see a pair and see a pattern. But add another word and get this figure.

Three in a Row (Rule of 3s)

Answer 82

Tricolon

Question 83

Identify the figure from the definition:

Repeating a word immediately in exactly the same sense.

Answer 83

Epizeuxis

Question 84

Identify the figure from the definition:

When one word is used in two (or more) incongruous ways.

Taking Together

Answer 84

Syllepsis

Question 85

Identify the figure from the definition:

Two clauses or sentences that are grammatically parallel, two sentences that are structurally the same.

Parallelism

Answer 85

Isocolon

Question 86

Identify the figure from the definition:

A deliberate grammar mistake.

Intentional Grammar Mistake

Answer 86

Enallage

Question 87

Identify the figure from the definition:

A series of clauses which use the same verb.

Yoking Together

Answer 87

Zeugma

Question 88

Identify the figure from the definition:

A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition.

Answer 88

Paradox

Question 89

Identify the figure from the definition:

A phrase or statement that appears impossible, but is actually quite simple; i.e., a simple thought described in a surprising, paradoxical way.

Answer 89

Veridical paradox

Question 90

Identify the figure from the definition:

Word play paradox.

Answer 90

Pun paradox

Question 91

Identify the figure from the definition:

A paradox that describes something impossible (except in language).

Answer 91

True paradox

Question 92

Identify the figure from the definition:

Where the words of the first half are mirrored in the second half.

Verbal Symmetry (ABBA)

Answer 92

Chiasmus

Question 93

Identify the figure from the definition:

Repeating a vowel sound.

Answer 93

Assonance

Question 94

Identify the figure from the definition:

Using numbers can make just about anything sound ancient, significant, and mysterious.

Numbers are Mysterious

Answer 94

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 95

Identify the figure from the definition:

When a sentence is so startingly wrong that it’s right.

Strange Usage, Jazz Grammar

Answer 95

Catachresis

Question 96

Identify the figure from the definition:

Affirming something by denying its opposite. It’s a form of understatement-by-negative.

Ironic Understatement

Answer 96

Litotes

Question 97

Identify the figure from the definition:

The extreme form of metonymy, where you become one of your body parts. You are your feet, your lips, or your liver.

A Part Represents the Whole

Answer 97

Synecdoche

Question 98

Identify the figure from the definition:

A subset of synecdoches, where one part of the story stands for the whole things, not because it’s a symbol of it, but because it’s part of it.

Answer 98

Historical synecdoche

Question 99

Identify the figure from the definition:

When two things are connected because they are really physically connected.

Answer 99

Metonymy

Question 100

Identify the figure from the definition:

When an adjective is applied to the wrong noun.

Answer 100

Transferred epithets

Question 101

Identify the figure from the definition:

The use of unneeded words that are superfluous and unnecessary in a sentence that doesn’t require them.

Verbiage

Answer 101

Pleonasm

Question 102

Identify the figure from the definition:

Unnecessary/ungrammatical extra words seeping in, making a subtle pleonasm.

Answer 102

Tiny pleonasm

Question 103

Identify the figure from the definition:

The fake sort of language that advertisers use, making language more redundant and content free than it otherwise would be.

Answer 103

Lazy pleonasm

Question 104

Identify the figure from the definition:

Lovely pleonasm (excess verbiage) used for emphasis and amplification.

Answer 104

Literary pleonasm

Question 105

Identify the figure from the definition:

When you end where you began a sentence (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and end of a sentence or clause to emphasize circularity).

Circularity

Answer 105

Epanalepsis

Question 106

Identify the figure from the definition:

The representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Answer 106

Personification

Question 107

Identify the figure from the definition:

Exaggeration.

Answer 107

Hyperbole

Question 108

Identify the figure from the definition:

An impossibility, which means “this is the case,” i.e., this is how it is.

The Never Ever Ever Statement

Answer 108

Adynaton

Question 109

Identify the figure from the definition:

Using the pronoun before saying what it refers to.

The Pronoun Goes First

Answer 109

Prolepsis

Question 110

Identify the figure from the definition:

Latin for heap, and in rhetoric it applies to any piling of adjectives or nouns in a list.

Lengthy List

Answer 110

Congeries

Question 111

Identify the figure from the definition:

Sentences without a main verb.

Verbless Sentence

Answer 111

Scesis Onomaton

Question 112

Identify the figure from the definition:

Starting every sentence with the same words.

Repeated Beginnings

Answer 112

Anaphora

Question 113

Identify the figure from the example:

“The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold,
Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that
The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.”

Answer 113

Alliteration

Question 114

Identify the figure from the example:

“Curiosity killed the cat.”

Answer 114

Alliteration

Question 115

Identify the figure from the example:

“A miss is as good as a mile.”

Answer 115

Alliteration

Question 116

Identify the figure from the example:

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

Answer 116

Alliteration

Question 117

Identify the figure from the example:

“She’s right as rain.”

Answer 117

Alliteration

Question 118

Identify the figure from the example:

“It takes two to tango.”

Answer 118

Alliteration

Question 119

Identify the figure from the example:

“Cool as a cucumber.”

Answer 119

Alliteration

Question 120

Identify the figure from the example:

“Dead as a doornail.”

Answer 120

Alliteration

Question 121

Identify the figure from the example:

The Pickwick Papers

Answer 121

Alliteration

Question 122

Identify the figure from the example:

A Christmas Carol

Answer 122

Alliteration

Question 123

Identify the figure from the example:

Sense and Sensibility

Answer 123

Alliteration

Question 124

Identify the figure from the example:

Pride and Prejudice

Answer 124

Alliteration

Question 125

Identify the figure from the example:

Where’s Waldo?

Answer 125

Alliteration

Question 126

Identify the figure from the example:

“He knows which side of his bread is buttered.”

Answer 126

Alliteration

Question 127

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ban the bomb.”

Answer 127

Alliteration

Question 128

Identify the figure from the example:

“Burn your bra.”

Answer 128

Alliteration

Question 129

Identify the figure from the example:

“Power to the people.”

Answer 129

Alliteration

Question 130

Identify the figure from the example:

“It’s enough to get your goat.”

Answer 130

Alliteration

Question 131

Identify the figure from the example:

“Please Please Me”

Answer 131

Polyptoton

Question 132

Identify the figure from the example:

“Nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung”

Answer 132

Polyptoton

Question 133

Identify the figure from the example:

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.”

Answer 133

Polyptoton

Question 134

Identify the figure from the example:

“Is this the dagger that I see before me,
The handle towards my hand?”

Answer 134

Polyptoton

Question 135

Identify the figure from the example:

“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
I am no traitor’s uncle; and that word “grace”
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.”

Answer 135

Polyptoton

Question 136

Identify the figure from the example:

“But me no buts.”

Answer 136

Polyptoton

Question 137

Identify the figure from the example:

“Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

Answer 137

Polyptoton

Question 138

Identify the figure from the example:

“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

Answer 138

Polyptoton

Question 139

Identify the figure from the example:

“Piper, pipe that song again.”

Answer 139

Polyptoton

Question 140

Identify the figure from the example:

“This one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Answer 140

Polyptoton, Antithesis

Question 141

Identify the figure from the example:

“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

Answer 141

Antithesis

Question 142

Identify the figure from the example:

“If a man knows he’s a gentleman, he knows quite enough. If he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”

Answer 142

Antithesis

Question 143

Identify the figure from the example:

“Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one.”

Answer 143

Antithesis

Question 144

Identify the figure from the example:

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind; men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

Answer 144

Antithesis

Question 145

Identify the figure from the example:

“United we stand, divided we fall.”

Answer 145

Antithesis

Question 146

Identify the figure from the example:

“Those who do, can; those who can’t, teach.”

Answer 146

Antithesis

Question 147

Identify the figure from the example:

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

Answer 147

Antithesis

Question 148

Identify the figure from the example:

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

Answer 148

Antithesis, Anaphora

Question 149

Identify the figure from the example:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”

Answer 149

Antithesis, Anaphora

Question 150

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ladies and gentlemen”

Answer 150

Merism

Question 151

Identify the figure from the example:

“Night and day”

Answer 151

Merism

Question 152

Identify the figure from the example:

“Cannon to right of them, / Cannon to left of them, Cannon to the front of them”

Answer 152

Merism

Question 153

Identify the figure from the example:

“I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wedded wife/husband, and I do promise and covenant, before God and these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful husband/wife, in plenty and want, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live.”

Answer 153

Merism

Question 154

Identify the figure from the example:

“Loud colors”

Answer 154

Synaesthesia

Question 155

Identify the figure from the example:

“Bright melodies”

Answer 155

Synaesthesia

Question 156

Identify the figure from the example:

“Dark rumblings”

Answer 156

Synaesthesia

Question 157

Identify the figure from the example:

“Silky voice”

Answer 157

Synaesthesia

Question 158

Identify the figure from the example:

“Harmonious colors”

Answer 158

Synaesthesia

Question 159

Identify the figure from the example:

“A gravelly voice”

Answer 159

Synaesthesia

Question 160

Identify the figure from the example:

“Warm colors of a painting”

Answer 160

Synaesthesia

Question 161

Identify the figure from the example:

“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”

Answer 161

Synaesthesia

Question 162

Identify the figure from the example:

“Music that stinks to the ear”

Answer 162

Synaesthesia

Question 163

Identify the figure from the example:

“It smelled like victory.”

Answer 163

Synaesthesia

Question 164

Identify the figure from the example:

“No, Percy, thou art dust
And food for…”

Answer 164

Aposiopesis

Question 165

Identify the figure from the example:

“No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall… I will do such things…”

Answer 165

Aposiopesis

Question 166

Identify the figure from the example:

“Clean your room or else.”

Answer 166

Aposiopesis

Question 167

Identify the figure from the example:

“Have fire in this garret before night or—”

Answer 167

Aposiopesis

Question 168

Identify the figure from the example:

“Speaking of the Devil…”

Answer 168

Aposiopesis

Question 169

Identify the figure from the example:

“When in Rome…”

Answer 169

Aposiopesis

Question 170

Identify the figure from the example:

“Out of the mouth of babes…”

Answer 170

Aposiopesis

Question 171

Identify the figure from the example:

“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage…”

Answer 171

Hyperbaton

Question 172

Identify the figure from the example:

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

Answer 172

Hyperbaton

Question 173

Identify the figure from the example:

“We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope maketh man not ashamed.”

Answer 173

Anadiplosis

Question 174

Identify the figure from the example:

“The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death”

Answer 174

Anadiplosis

Question 175

Identify the figure from the example:

“For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime”

Answer 175

Anadiplosis

Question 176

Identify the figure from the example:

“But O the heavy change now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return.”

Answer 176

Anadiplosis

Question 177

Identify the figure from the example:

“The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor.”

Answer 177

Anadiplosis

Question 178

Identify the figure from the example:

“If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the wine as old as the fish, and the fish as young as the maid, and the maid as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal.”

Answer 178

Anadiplosis, Periodic Sentence

Question 179

Identify the figure from the example:

“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous for their birth,
Renownèd for their deeds as far from home
For Christian service and true chivalry
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world’s ransom, blessèd Mary’s son.
This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out – I die pronouncing it –
Like to a tenement or pelting farm.”

Answer 179

Periodic Sentence, Congeries

Question 180

Identify the figure from the example:

“Every breath you take,
Every move you make,
Every bond you break,
Every step you take,
I’ll be watching you.”

Answer 180

Periodic Sentence

Question 181

Identify the figure from the example:

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

Answer 181

Hypotaxis

Question 182

Identify the figure from the example:

“Bond. James Bond.”

Answer 182

Diacope

Question 183

Identify the figure from the example:

“Burn, baby, burn”

Answer 183

Diacope

Question 184

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fly, my pretties, fly!”

Answer 184

Diacope

Question 185

Identify the figure from the example:

“Events, my dear boy, events.”

Answer 185

Diacope

Question 186

Identify the figure from the example:

“Crisis? What crisis?”

Answer 186

Diacope

Question 187

Identify the figure from the example:

“You will, Oscar. You will.”

Answer 187

Diacope

Question 188

Identify the figure from the example:

“From sea to shining sea”

Answer 188

Diacope

Question 189

Identify the figure from the example:

“Sunday bloody Sunday”

Answer 189

Diacope

Question 190

Identify the figure from the example:

“O Captain! My captain!”

Answer 190

Diacope

Question 191

Identify the figure from the example:

“Human, all too human”

Answer 191

Diacope

Question 192

Identify the figure from the example:

“From harmony, from heavenly harmony…”

Answer 192

Diacope

Question 193

Identify the figure from the example:

“Beauty, real beauty ends where intellectual expression begins…”

Answer 193

Diacope

Question 194

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ignorance, Madam. Pure ignorance.”

Answer 194

Diacope

Question 195

Identify the figure from the example:

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

Answer 195

Diacope

Question 196

Identify the figure from the example:

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Answer 196

Diacope

Question 197

Identify the figure from the example:

“Dead, dead, long dead,
And my heart is a handful of dust.”

Answer 197

Diacope

Question 198

Identify the figure from the example:

“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

Answer 198

Diacope

Question 199

Identify the figure from the example:

“Love me. Love me. Say that you love me.”

Answer 199

Diacope

Question 200

Identify the figure from the example:

“To be or not to be.”

Answer 200

Diacope

Question 201

Identify the figure from the example:

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Answer 201

Erotesis (rhetorical question)

Question 202

Identify the figure from the example:

“And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountain green?”

Answer 202

Erotesis (rhetorical question), Synecdoche

Question 203

Identify the figure from the example:

“How cute is that koala?”

Answer 203

Erotesis (rhetorical question)

Question 204

Identify the figure from the example:

“What’s the point?”

Answer 204

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 205

Identify the figure from the example:

“Why go on?”

Answer 205

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 206

Identify the figure from the example:

“How could you?”

Answer 206

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 207

Identify the figure from the example:

“What’s a girl gotta do to get a piece of toast around here?”

Answer 207

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 208

Identify the figure from the example:

“What makes your heart so hard?”

Answer 208

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 209

Identify the figure from the example:

“Why died I not in the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”

Answer 209

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 210

Identify the figure from the example:

“Why, God, why?”

Answer 210

Epiplexis (rhetorical question), Diacope

Question 211

Identify the figure from the example:

“Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?”

Answer 211

Epiplexis (rhetorical question)

Question 212

Identify the figure from the example:

“Who do you trust to run the economy?”

Answer 212

Anacoenosis (rhetorical question)

Question 213

Identify the figure from the example:

“Would you buy a used car from this man?”

Answer 213

Anacoenosis (rhetorical question)

Question 214

Identify the figure from the example:

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Answer 214

Hypophora (rhetorical question)

Question 215

Identify the figure from the example:

“You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.”

Answer 215

Hypophora (rhetorical question)

[also: Anaphora, Tricolon]

Question 216

Identify the figure from the example:

Jules: Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like!
Brett: What?
Jules: Say ‘what’ again. Say ‘what’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
Brett: H-H-He’s black…
Jules: Go on!
Brett: He’s bald…!
Jules: Does he look like a bitch?
Brett: What?
Jules: [shoots Brett in the shoulder] DOES HE… LOOK… LIKE A BITCH?
Brett: No!
Jules: Then why you tryin’ to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?
Brett: I didn’t…!
Jules: Yes, you did. Yes, you did, Brett! You tried to fuck him.
Brett: [gasping] No, no…
Jules: But Marcellus Wallace don’t like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.

Answer 216

Subjectio (rhetorical question)

Question 217

Identify the figure from the example:

“To be or not to be?”

Answer 217

Aporia (rhetorical question)

Question 218

Identify the figure from the example:

“Will you still love me tomorrow?”

Answer 218

Aporia (rhetorical question)

Question 219

Identify the figure from the example:

“Who’s that girl running around with you?”

Answer 219

Aporia (rhetorical question)

Question 220

Identify the figure from the example:

“How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?”

Answer 220

Unanswerable rhetorical question

Question 221

Identify the figure from the example:

“Nice and hot”

Answer 221

Hendiadys

Question 222

Identify the figure from the example:

“Go and see”

Answer 222

Hendiadys

Question 223

Identify the figure from the example:

“Work out your salvation with fear and trembling”

Answer 223

Hendiadys

Question 224

Identify the figure from the example:

“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory”

Answer 224

Hendiadys

Question 225

Identify the figure from the example:

“Angels and ministers of grace defend us”

Answer 225

Hendiadys

Question 226

Identify the figure from the example:

“Sulphurous and tormenting flames”

Answer 226

Hendiadys

Question 227

Identify the figure from the example:

“The morn and liquid dew of youth”

Answer 227

Hendiadys

Question 228

Identify the figure from the example:

“The grace and blush of modesty”

Answer 228

Hendiadys

Question 229

Identify the figure from the example:

“The dead vast and middle of the night”

Answer 229

Hendiadys

Question 230

Identify the figure from the example:

“I have told you what I have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it”

Answer 230

Hendiadys

Question 231

Identify the figure from the example:

“Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury”

Answer 231

Hendiadys

Question 232

Identify the figure from the example:

“You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.”

Answer 232

Hendiadys

Question 233

Identify the figure from the example:

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”

Answer 233

Epistrophe

Question 234

Identify the figure from the example:

“A fine woman! A fair woman! A sweet woman!”

Answer 234

Epistrophe

Question 235

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond!
I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.”

Answer 235

Epistrophe

Question 236

Identify the figure from the example:

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

Answer 236

Epistrophe

Question 237

Identify the figure from the example:

“Yes we can.”

Answer 237

Epistrophe

Question 238

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too.”

Answer 238

Epistrophe

Question 239

Identify the figure from the example:

“Show men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: come they of a noble family?
Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou.”

Answer 239

Epistrophe

Question 240

Identify the figure from the example:

“If you hold anything back, I’ll kill you. If you bend the truth, or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill you. If you forget anything, I’ll kill you. In fact, you’re going to have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I’ve said? Because if you don’t, I’ll kill you.”

Answer 240

Epistrophe

Question 241

Identify the figure from the example:

“A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!”

Answer 241

Epistrophe

Question 242

Identify the figure from the example:

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

Answer 242

Epistrophe

[also: Tricolon]

Question 243

Identify the figure from the example:

“Eat, drink, and be merry”

Answer 243

Tricolon

Question 244

Identify the figure from the example:

“Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”

Answer 244

Tricolon

Question 245

Identify the figure from the example:

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

Answer 245

Tricolon

Question 246

Identify the figure from the example:

“Truth, justice, and the American way”

Answer 246

Tricolon

Question 247

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”

Answer 247

Tricolon, Diacope

Question 248

Identify the figure from the example:

“Wine, women, and song”

Answer 248

Tricolon

Question 249

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ready, steady, go.”

Answer 249

Tricolon

Question 250

Identify the figure from the example:

“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!”

Answer 250

Tricolon

Question 251

Identify the figure from the example:

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Answer 251

Tricolon

Question 252

Identify the figure from the example:

“Friends, Romans, countrymen”

Answer 252

Tricolon

Question 253

Identify the figure from the example:

“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know”

Answer 253

Tricolon

Question 254

Identify the figure from the example:

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”

Answer 254

Tricolon, Diacope

Question 255

Identify the figure from the example:

“Of graves, of worms and epitaphs”

Answer 255

Tricolon

Question 256

Identify the figure from the example:

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”

Answer 256

Tricolon

Question 257

Identify the figure from the example:

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people”

Answer 257

Tricolon

Question 258

Identify the figure from the example:

“Blood, sweat, and tears”

Answer 258

Tricolon

Question 259

Identify the figure from the example:

“Location. Location. Location.”

Answer 259

Epizeuxis

Question 260

Identify the figure from the example:

“Action. Action. Action.”

Answer 260

Epizeuxis

Question 261

Identify the figure from the example:

“Simple. Simple. Simple.”

Answer 261

Epizeuxis

Question 262

Identify the figure from the example:

“Education. Education. Education.”

Answer 262

Epizeuxis

Question 263

Identify the figure from the example:

“Weak! Weak! Weak!”

Answer 263

Epizeuxis

Question 264

Identify the figure from the example:

“No. No. No.”

Answer 264

Epizeuxis

Question 265

Identify the figure from the example:

“Oh, horror, horror, horror”

Answer 265

Epizeuxis

Question 266

Identify the figure from the example:

“Howl! Howl! Howl! Howl!”

Answer 266

Epizeuxis

Question 267

Identify the figure from the example:

“And my poor fool is hanged.—No, no, no life?
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Oh, thou’lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never.—
Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
Do you see this? Look on her. Look, her lips.
Look there, look there. O, O, O, O.”

Answer 267

Epizeuxis

Question 268

Identify the figure from the example:

“Monks! Monks! Monks!”

Answer 268

Epizeuxis

Question 269

Identify the figure from the example:

“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps into this petty place.”

Answer 269

Epizeuxis

Question 270

Identify the figure from the example:

“Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!”

Answer 270

Epizeuxis

Question 271

Identify the figure from the example:

“Words, words, words”

Answer 271

Epizeuxis

Question 272

Identify the figure from the example:

“Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibson?”

Answer 272

Epizeuxis

Question 273

Identify the figure from the example:

“The horror! The horror!”

Answer 273

Epizeuxis

Question 274

Identify the figure from the example:

“Tiger, tiger, burning bright”

Answer 274

Epizeuxis

Question 275

Identify the figure from the example:

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

Answer 275

Epizeuxis

Question 276

Identify the figure from the example:

“Gone, gone again”

Answer 276

Epizeuxis

Question 277

Identify the figure from the example:

“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Answer 277

Epizeuxis

Question 278

Identify the figure from the example:

“A shocking affair occurred last night. Sir Edward Hopeless, as guest in Lady Panmore’s ball, complained of feeling ill, took a highball, his hat, his coat, his departure, no notice of his friends, a taxi, a pistol from his pocket, and finally his life. Nice chap. Regrets and all that.”

Answer 278

Syllepsis

Question 279

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ve barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.”

Answer 279

Syllepsis

Question 280

Identify the figure from the example:

“Rend your heart, and not your garments”

Answer 280

Syllepsis

Question 281

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lose her heart or honor at a ball”

Answer 281

Syllepsis

Question 282

Identify the figure from the example:

“Stain her honor or a new brocade”

Answer 282

Syllepsis

Question 283

Identify the figure from the example:

“Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counsel take—and sometimes Tea.”

Answer 283

Syllepsis

Question 284

Identify the figure from the example:

“Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave.”

Answer 284

Syllepsis

Question 285

Identify the figure from the example:

“He fell into a barrow, and fell asleep.”

Answer 285

Syllepsis

Question 286

Identify the figure from the example:

“Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.”

Answer 286

Syllepsis

Question 287

Identify the figure from the example:

“Make love not war”

Answer 287

Syllepsis

Question 288

Identify the figure from the example:

“Covered themselves in dust and glory”

Answer 288

Syllepsis

Question 289

Identify the figure from the example:

“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all of Heaven in a rage”

Answer 289

Syllepsis

Question 290

Identify the figure from the example:

“Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice”

Answer 290

Syllepsis, Isocolon

Question 291

Identify the figure from the example:

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”

Answer 291

Isocolon

Question 292

Identify the figure from the example:

“Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of.”

Answer 292

Isocolon

Question 293

Identify the figure from the example:

“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.”

Answer 293

Isocolon

Question 294

Identify the figure from the example:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

Answer 294

Isocolon

Question 295

Identify the figure from the example:

“Marry in haste, repent in leisure.”

Answer 295

Isocolon

Question 296

Identify the figure from the example:

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”

Answer 296

Isocolon

Question 297

Identify the figure from the example:

“In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.”

Answer 297

Isocolon

Question 298

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”

Answer 298

Isocolon

Question 299

Identify the figure from the example:

“You pays your money and takes your choice.”

Answer 299

Enallage

Question 300

Identify the figure from the example:

“…the manager’s boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scathing contempt—’Mistah Kurtz—he dead.’”

Answer 300

Enallage

Question 301

Identify the figure from the example:

“We was robbed.”

Answer 301

Enallage

Question 302

Identify the figure from the example:

“Let us go then, you and I”

Answer 302

Enallage

Question 303

Identify the figure from the example:

“Love me tender”

Answer 303

Enallage

Question 304

Identify the figure from the example:

“Do not go gentle into that good night”

Answer 304

Enallage

Question 305

Identify the figure from the example:

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”

Answer 305

Enallage

Question 306

Identify the figure from the example:

“For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.”

Answer 306

Zeugma

Question 307

Identify the figure from the example:

“He works his work; I mine.”

Answer 307

Zeugma

Question 308

Identify the figure from the example:

“The good end happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

Answer 308

Zeugma

Question 309

Identify the figure from the example:

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”

Answer 309

Zeugma

Question 310

Identify the figure from the example:

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

Answer 310

Veridical paradox

Question 311

Identify the figure from the example:

“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

Answer 311

Veridical paradox

Question 312

Identify the figure from the example:

“All men become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

Answer 312

Veridical paradox

Question 313

Identify the figure from the example:

“We live in an age where unnecessary things are only necessities.”

Answer 313

Veridical paradox

Question 314

Identify the figure from the example:

“I must be cruel only to be kind.”

Answer 314

Veridical paradox

Question 315

Identify the figure from the example:

“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”

Answer 315

Pun-paradox

Question 316

Identify the figure from the example:

“Labour isn’t working.”

Answer 316

Pun-paradox

Question 317

Identify the figure from the example:

“Back to the Future”

Answer 317

Pun-paradox

Question 318

Identify the figure from the example:

“People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence”

Answer 318

True paradox

Question 319

Identify the figure from the example:

“The first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first.”

Answer 319

True paradox, Chiasmus

Question 320

Identify the figure from the example:

“Tea for two and two for tea
Tea for you and you for me”

Answer 320

Chiasmus

Question 321

Identify the figure from the example:

“One for all and all for one”

Answer 321

Chiasmus

Question 322

Identify the figure from the example:

“Eat to live, not live to eat”

Answer 322

Chiasmus

Question 323

Identify the figure from the example:

“My mind on my money and money on my mind”

Answer 323

Chiasmus

Question 324

Identify the figure from the example:

“Money don’t make the man, but man am I making money”

Answer 324

Chiasmus

Question 325

Identify the figure from the example:

“You stood up for America. Now America must stand up for you.”

Answer 325

Chiasmus

Question 326

Identify the figure from the example:

“Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies”

Answer 326

Chiasmus

Question 327

Identify the figure from the example:

“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.”

Answer 327

Chiasmus

Question 328

Identify the figure from the example:

“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”

Answer 328

Chiasmus

Question 329

Identify the figure from the example:

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

Answer 329

Chiasmus

Question 330

Identify the figure from the example:

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

Answer 330

Chiasmus

Question 331

Identify the figure from the example:

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

Answer 331

Chiasmus

Question 332

Identify the figure from the example:

“The Sabbath was made for man and not the man for the Sabbath.”

Answer 332

Chiasmus

Question 333

Identify the figure from the example:

“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

Answer 333

Chiasmus

Question 334

Identify the figure from the example:

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

Answer 334

Chiasmus

Question 335

Identify the figure from the example:

“The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on.”

Answer 335

Chiasmus

Question 336

Identify the figure from the example:

“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”

Answer 336

Chiasmus

Question 337

Identify the figure from the example:

“All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.”

Answer 337

Chiasmus

Question 338

Identify the figure from the example:

“It’s not the men in my life, it’s the life in my men.”

Answer 338

Chiasmus

Question 339

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa.”

Answer 339

Chiasmus [implied]

Question 340

Identify the figure from the example:

“Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new”

Answer 340

Chiasmus [grammatical]

Question 341

Identify the figure from the example:

“I see trees of green, red roses too.”

Answer 341

Chiasmus [grammatical]

Question 342

Identify the figure from the example:

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…”

Answer 342

Chiasmus, Assonance

[vowels: An—Ah—Oo—i—Ah—An]

Question 343

Identify the figure from the example:

“Beneath the thunders of the upper deep”

Answer 343

Chiasmus, Assonance

[vowels: Ee—e—u—e—o—e—u—e—ee]

Question 344

Identify the figure from the example:

“High as a kite”

Answer 344

Assonance

Question 345

Identify the figure from the example:

“How now, brown cow”

Answer 345

Assonance

Question 346

Identify the figure from the example:

“A stitch in time saves nine”

Answer 346

Assonance

Question 347

Identify the figure from the example:

“A cat has nine lives”

Answer 347

Assonance, The Fourteenth Rule

Question 348

Identify the figure from the example:

“Unlucky thirteen”

Answer 348

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 349

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lucky number seven.”

Answer 349

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 350

Identify the figure from the example:

“Auspicious eight.”

Answer 350

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 351

Identify the figure from the example:

“The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.”

Answer 351

The Fourteenth Rule, Tricolon

Question 352

Identify the figure from the example:

“Sixteen vestal virgins.”

Answer 352

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 353

Identify the figure from the example:

“Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked into a pie.”

Answer 353

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 354

Identify the figure from the example:

“Three blind mice.”

Answer 354

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 355

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest.”

Answer 355

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 356

Identify the figure from the example:

“Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.”

Answer 356

The Fourteenth Rule, Merism

Question 357

Identify the figure from the example:

“Like one that hath been seven days drowned
My body lay afloat;”

Answer 357

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 358

Identify the figure from the example:

“Nine Ringwraiths”

Answer 358

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 359

Identify the figure from the example:

“Seven Pillars of Wisdom”

Answer 359

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 360

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall”

Answer 360

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 361

Identify the figure from the example:

“Obviously Five Believers”

Answer 361

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 362

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fourth Time Around”

Answer 362

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 363

Identify the figure from the example:

“Love Minus Zero”

Answer 363

The Fourteenth Rule

Question 364

Identify the figure from the example:

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

Answer 364

Catachresis

Question 365

Identify the figure from the example:

“Curiouser and curiouser”

Answer 365

Catachresis

Question 366

Identify the figure from the example:

“Thunderbirds are go”

Answer 366

Catachresis

Question 367

Identify the figure from the example:

“Dance Me to the End of Love”

Answer 367

Catachresis

Question 368

Identify the figure from the example:

“She lives on Love Street”

Answer 368

Catachresis

Question 369

Identify the figure from the example:

“Love in the First Degree”

Answer 369

Catachresis

Question 370

Identify the figure from the example:

“Bad Case of Loving You”

Answer 370

Catachresis

Question 371

Identify the figure from the example:

“What Time is Love?”

Answer 371

Catachresis

Question 372

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lay a whisper on my pillow”

Answer 372

Catachresis

Question 373

Identify the figure from the example:

“Bill Gates isn’t short of a bob or two.”

Answer 373

Litotes

Question 374

Identify the figure from the example:

“We are not amused.”

Answer 374

Litotes

Question 375

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lovely weather we’re having”

Answer 375

Litotes

Question 376

Identify the figure from the example:

“Oh, because you’d know all about being faithful”

Answer 376

Litotes

Question 377

Identify the figure from the example:

Washington [while in talks with Beijing…]

Answer 377

Metonymy

Question 378

Identify the figure from the example:

The White House [announced today…]

Answer 378

Metonymy

Question 379

Identify the figure from the example:

The British Crown [announced today…]

Answer 379

Metonymy

Question 380

Identify the figure from the example:

Wall Street

Answer 380

Metonymy

Question 381

Identify the figure from the example:

Green Berets

Answer 381

Metonymy

Question 382

Identify the figure from the example:

Redcoats

Answer 382

Metonymy

Question 383

Identify the figure from the example:

The [army’s] top brass

Answer 383

Metonymy

Question 384

Identify the figure from the example:

The Vatican

Answer 384

Metonymy

Question 385

Identify the figure from the example:

[You’re] a suit

Answer 385

Metonymy

Question 386

Identify the figure from the example:

[She’s] a skirt

Answer 386

Metonymy

Question 387

Identify the figure from the example:

Bums in seats

Answer 387

Synecdoche

Question 388

Identify the figure from the example:

Hungry mouths

Answer 388

Synecdoche

Question 389

Identify the figure from the example:

Hands on deck

Answer 389

Synecdoche

Question 390

Identify the figure from the example:

Their top brains

Answer 390

Synecdoche

Question 391

Identify the figure from the example:

“What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

Answer 391

Synecdoche

Question 392

Identify the figure from the example:

“And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when that heart began to beat,
What dread hands and what dread feet?”

Answer 392

Synecdoche

Question 393

Identify the figure from the example:

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”

Answer 393

Historical synecdoche

Question 394

Identify the figure from the example:

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 394

Historical synecdoche

Question 395

Identify the figure from the example:

The storming of the Bastille

Answer 395

Historical synecdoche

Question 396

Identify the figure from the example:

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 396

Historical synecdoche

Question 397

Identify the figure from the example:

Hungry eyes

Answer 397

Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet

Question 398

Identify the figure from the example:

Cheating hearts

Answer 398

Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet

Question 399

Identify the figure from the example:

Lying lips

Answer 399

Synecdoche, Transferred Epithet

Question 400

Identify the figure from the example:

“The man smoked a nervous cigarette.”

Answer 400

Transferred Epithet

Question 401

Identify the figure from the example:

“I lit a rather pleased cigarette.”

Answer 401

Transferred Epithet

Question 402

Identify the figure from the example:

“I balanced a thoughtful lump of sugar on the teaspoon.”

Answer 402

Transferred Epithet

Question 403

Identify the figure from the example:

“His eyes widened and an astonished piece of toast fell from his grasp.”

Answer 403

Transferred Epithet

Question 404

Identify the figure from the example:

“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time…”

Answer 404

Transferred Epithet

Question 405

Identify the figure from the example:

“The ploughman homeward plods his weary way”

Answer 405

Transferred Epithet

Question 406

Identify the figure from the example:

“The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:”

Answer 406

Transferred Epithet

Question 407

Identify the figure from the example:

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”

Answer 407

Tiny pleonasm

Question 408

Identify the figure from the example:

“Personal friends”

Answer 408

Lazy pleonasm

Question 409

Identify the figure from the example:

“Added bonuses”

Answer 409

Lazy pleonasm

Question 410

Identify the figure from the example:

“Free gifts”

Answer 410

Lazy pleonasm

Question 411

Identify the figure from the example:

“Safe havens”

Answer 411

Lazy pleonasm

Question 412

Identify the figure from the example:

“Mutual cooperation”

Answer 412

Lazy pleonasm

Question 413

Identify the figure from the example:

“Prizes won”

Answer 413

Lazy pleonasm

Question 414

Identify the figure from the example:

“I saw it with my own two eyes”

Answer 414

Literary pleonasm

Question 415

Identify the figure from the example:

“Th’inaudible and noiseless foot of time”

Answer 415

Literary pleonasm

Question 416

Identify the figure from the example:

“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.”

Answer 416

Literary pleonasm

Question 417

Identify the figure from the example:

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”

Answer 417

Literary pleonasm

Question 418

Identify the figure from the example:

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

Answer 418

Literary pleonasm

Question 419

Identify the figure from the example:

Duty calls

Answer 419

Personification

Question 420

Identify the figure from the example:

Money talks

Answer 420

Personification

Question 421

Identify the figure from the example:

Sleep beckons

Answer 421

Personification

Question 422

Identify the figure from the example:

Work phoned up

Answer 422

Personification

Question 423

Identify the figure from the example:

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on;”

Answer 423

Personification

Question 424

Identify the figure from the example:

“Bold-faced Victory”

Answer 424

Personification

Question 425

Identify the figure from the example:

“Close-tongued Treason”

Answer 425

Personification

Question 426

Identify the figure from the example:

“Open-eyed Conspiracy”

Answer 426

Personification

Question 427

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fire-eyed Fury”

Answer 427

Personification

Question 428

Identify the figure from the example:

“The silver hand of Peace”

Answer 428

Personification

Question 429

Identify the figure from the example:

“Pale-faced Fear”

Answer 429

Personification

Question 430

Identify the figure from the example:

“The iron tongue of Midnight”

Answer 430

Personification

Question 431

Identify the figure from the example:

“Smoothed-face peace”

Answer 431

Personification

Question 432

Identify the figure from the example:

“That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity”

Answer 432

Personification

Question 433

Identify the figure from the example:

“Lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave”

Answer 433

Personification

Question 434

Identify the figure from the example:

“But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near”

Answer 434

Personification

Question 435

Identify the figure from the example:

“Under the opening eyelids of the morn”

Answer 435

Personification

Question 436

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ve been waiting for ages.”

Answer 436

Hyperbole

Question 437

Identify the figure from the example:

“If I’ve told you twice, I’ve told you a thousand times.”

Answer 437

Hyperbole

Question 438

Identify the figure from the example:

“A ton of money”

Answer 438

Hyperbole

Question 439

Identify the figure from the example:

“A flood of tears”

Answer 439

Hyperbole

Question 440

Identify the figure from the example:

“In fact, Miss Abigail Ardsley has practically all the potatoes in the world, except maybe a few left over for general circulation.”

Answer 440

Hyperbole

Question 441

Identify the figure from the example:

“He could have shadowed a drop of salt water from Golden Gate to Hong Kong without ever losing sight of it.”

Answer 441

Hyperbole

Question 442

Identify the figure from the example:

“Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; there is enough of her to furnish wives for the whole parish. One man marry her!—it is monstrous! You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning’s walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting places, and you were in rude health. I once was rash enough to try walking round her before breakfast, but only got half way and gave it up exhausted. Or you might read the Riot Act and disperse her; in short, you might do anything but marry her!”

Answer 442

Hyperbole

Question 443

Identify the figure from the example:

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.”

Answer 443

Hyperbole

Question 444

Identify the figure from the example:

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?”

Answer 444

Hyperbole

Question 445

Identify the figure from the example:

“When pigs fly”

Answer 445

Adynaton

Question 446

Identify the figure from the example:

“When hell freezes over”

Answer 446

Adynaton

Question 447

Identify the figure from the example:

“Get blood out of a stone”

Answer 447

Adynaton

Question 448

Identify the figure from the example:

“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

Answer 448

Adynaton

Question 449

Identify the figure from the example:

“Build a worm fence round a winter supply of summer weather; catch a thunderbolt in a bladder; break a hurricane to harness; hang out the ocean on a grape-vine to dry; but never, sir, never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that you can beat Grant.”

Answer 449

Adynaton

Question 450

Identify the figure from the example:

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

“I’ll love you till the ocean,
Is folded and hung to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.”

Answer 450

Adynaton

[also, Diacope]

Question 451

Identify the figure from the example:

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

Answer 451

Adynaton

Question 452

Identify the figure from the example:

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.”

Answer 452

Prolepsis

Question 453

Identify the figure from the example:

“Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning;”

Answer 453

Prolepsis

Question 454

Identify the figure from the example:

“About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood…”

Answer 454

Prolepsis

Question 455

Identify the figure from the example:

“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they hate no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses,
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.”

Answer 455

Prolepsis

Question 456

Identify the figure from the example:

“Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”

Answer 456

Prolepsis, Congeries

Question 457

Identify the figure from the example:

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like […] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance…”

Answer 457

Congeries

Question 458

Identify the figure from the example:

“The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself”

Answer 458

Congeries

Question 459

Identify the figure from the example:

“’Sblood, you starveling, you elfskin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stockfish! O, for breath to utter what is like thee! You tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing tuck—”

Answer 459

Congeries

Question 460

Identify the figure from the example:

“Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murd’rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,”

Answer 460

Congeries

Question 461

Identify the figure from the example:

“Paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators, arch-cowards and collaborators, gang of woman-murderers, degenerate rabble, parasitic traditionalists, playboy soldiers, conceited dandies.”

Answer 461

Congeries, Scesis Onomaton

Question 462

Identify the figure from the example:

“Finders keepers.”

Answer 462

Scesis Onomaton

Question 463

Identify the figure from the example:

“London.”

Answer 463

Scesis Onomaton

Question 464

Identify the figure from the example:

“Implacable November weather.”

Answer 464

Scesis Onomaton

Question 465

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fog everywhere.”

Answer 465

Scesis Onomaton

Question 466

Identify the figure from the example:

“Space: the final frontier.”

Answer 466

Scesis Onomaton

Question 467

Identify the figure from the example:

“In War: Resolution.
In Defeat: Defiance.
In Victory: Magnanimity.
In Peace: Good Will.”

Answer 467

Scesis Onomaton

Question 468

Identify the figure from the example:

“Each to his own.”

Answer 468

Scesis Onomaton

Question 469

Identify the figure from the example:

“Like father, like son.”

Answer 469

Scesis Onomaton

Question 470

Identify the figure from the example:

“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!”

Answer 470

Scesis Onomaton

Question 471

Identify the figure from the example:

“Be near me when I fade away,
To point the term of human strife,
And on the low dark verge of life
The twilight of eternal day.”

Answer 471

Scesis Onomaton

Question 472

Identify the figure from the example:

“O eyes! No eyes, but fountains fraught with tears!
O life! No life, but lively form of death!
O world! No world, but mass of public wrongs,
Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds!
O Heavens!”

Answer 472

Scesis Onomaton, Anaphora

Question 473

Identify the figure from the example:

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Answer 473

Anaphora

Question 474

Identify the figure from the example:

“For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day’s work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord’s watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he’s a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord’s poor, and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can sit up with gravity, which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick, which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master’s bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Icneumon rat, very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire.
For the electrical fire is the spiritual substance which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, though he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.”

Answer 474

Anaphora

Question 475

Identify the figure from the example:

“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.”

Answer 475

Anaphora

Question 476

Identify the figure from the example:

“What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”

Answer 476

Anaphora