language techniques (special)

Question 1

synechdoche

Answer 1

something is used to represent the whole, or less commonly, the whole is used to represent a part. ‘something’s rotten in the state of Denmark’ is used to talk about Claudius

Question 2

stichomythia

Answer 2

sequences of single alternating lines are given to alternating characters.

Question 3

chiasmus

Answer 3

phrases repeated in reverse order.
‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba’

Question 4

interrogatives

Answer 4

words used to question. What, which, when, where, who, how, etc.

Question 5

hendiadys

Answer 5

the expression of a single idea by 2 wirds connected with ‘and’
‘a dull and muddy mettled rascal’

Question 6

synathroesmus

Answer 6

piling up of words, especially by adjectives ‘remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!’

Question 7

homeoteleuton

Answer 7

the use of word endings that are similiar or the same, often for rhetorical effect, ‘remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!’