Intermediate Rhetorical Devices l

Question 1

Antithesis

Answer 1

Contrast or opposite; Pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure

Question 2

Climax

Answer 2

Figure of speech where words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance

Question 3

Asyndeton

Answer 3

Excludes conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, yet, so) to add emphasis

Question 4

Polysyndeton

Answer 4

Several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession to achieve an artistic effect

Question 5

Synecdoche

Answer 5

The word for a part of something is used to refer to said thing itself OR (less commonly) the word for a thing itself is used to refer to part of that thing

Question 6

Apostrophe

Answer 6

A poetic phrase or speech made by a character adressed to a subject that isn’t literally present

Question 7

Chiasmus

Answer 7

Words, grammatical constructions and/or concepts are repeated in reverse order

Question 8

Polyptoton

Answer 8

Repetition of words derived from the same root

Question 9

Sympolce

Answer 9

Simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe in the same line(s), phrase(s) or sentence(s)

Question 10

Epanalepsis

Answer 10

Emphasis in which the same word or words both begin(s) and end(s) a phrase, clause or sentence

Question 11

Anadiplosis

Answer 11

Doubling back; the rhetorical repetition of one or more words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next

Question 12

Epizeuxis

Answer 12

A word or phrase is repeated in immediate succesion, without any intervening words

Question 13

Metonymy

Answer 13

The word for one thing is used to refer to something related to that thing

Question 14

Hypophora

Answer 14

Figure of speech where a character poses a question before answering said question

Question 15

Karios

Answer 15

A category of rhetorical devices in which time has come for a particular idea or action.