literary devices & rhetorical devices

Question 1

uses negative to produce opposite and positive quality

Answer 1

litotes

Question 2

minimizes the importance of something through euphism

Answer 2

meiosis

Question 3

direct comparing without using words to do it

Answer 3

metaphor

Question 4

say something in a polite way about unpleasant things or taboo

Answer 4

euphism

Question 5

compare something through the use of like, similar, resemble to

Answer 5

simile

Question 6

human qualities implied to objects and such

Answer 6

personification

Question 7

exaggeration

Answer 7

hyperbole

Question 8

use of well-known, famous people to describe an event

Answer 8

allusions

Question 9

using hidden meaning, morals such as using stories

Answer 9

allegory (ex. the lion, the witch and the wardrobe)

Question 10

what is anachronism

Answer 10

parang di akma yung time from before sa nangyayari (ex. presence of phones during 1871)

Question 11

speaker asks a question but does not hope for any answer

Answer 11

rhetorical questions

Question 12

contradictory but concealed point

Answer 12

oxymoron (ex. pretty ugly)

Question 13

may sound contradicting but true statement

Answer 13

paradox (similar with oxymoron)

Question 14

contrast ideas from previously mentioned proposition

Answer 14

antithesis (ex. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.)

Question 15

inulit yung sentence in reverse form or same but modified yung sentence

Answer 15

chiasmus

Question 16

nisubstitute yung noun to another one na synonymous

Answer 16

metonymy (the responsibility held by the crown has been given to its son) crown: king

Question 17

a part is used to represent the whole object || parang yung wheels = car

Answer 17

synecdoche