Intermediate Rhetorical Devices ll

Question 1

Synecdoche

Answer 1

Hired hand for “worker”; Society for “High Society”

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Question 3

Hypophora

Answer 3

“After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die”

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

“Hope for the best; prepare for the worst”

Question 5

Climax

Answer 5

“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!”

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

Question 7

Polysyndeton

Answer 7

“If there be cords, or knives, poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not endure it.”

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Polyptoton

Answer 9

“Who shall watch the watchmen?”

Question 10

Sympolce

Answer 10

“When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it.”

Question 11

Epanalepsis

Answer 11

“Nothing is worse than doing nothing”

Question 12

Anadiplosis

Answer 12

“Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.”

Question 13

Epizeuxis

Answer 13

“Never, never, never, never, never!”

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

A crown for “king” or “queen”