First Sixteen

Question 1

Paroemion

Answer 1

Excessive alliteration

Question 2

Polyptoton

Answer 2

Using the same word in different forms.

Question 3

Merism

Answer 3

Naming parts, but not the thing

Question 4

Blazon

Answer 4

Merism, where each part is attached to a simile

Question 5

Aposiopesis

Answer 5

(Greek) becoming silent.

Usually signified by …

Question 6

Hyperbaton

Answer 6

Words in the wrong order.

Opinion - size - age - shape - colour - origin - material - purpose - Noun

Question 7

Anadiplosis

Answer 7

Using the last word of a sentence as the first word of the next.

Question 8

Parataxis

Answer 8

A string of simple sentences

Question 9

Polysyndeton

Answer 9

Using lots of conjunctions to extend sentences

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

Using no conjunctions

Question 11

Hypotaxis

Answer 11

Constant subordinate clauses

Question 12

Diacope

Answer 12

Word sandwich.
ABA
(Extended diacope AABA)

Question 13

Hendiadys

Answer 13

Turn (adjective noun) into (noun and noun)
- roughly tumbling - rough and tumble

Or (adverb adjective) into (adjective and adjective)
- nice and hot

Or (verb and verb)
- try and do

Question 14

Epistrophe

Answer 14

Ending sentences, clauses, or paragraphs with the same word.

Question 15

Epizeuxis

Answer 15

Repeating a word immediately in exactly the same sense.

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

Starting sentences with the same words