Part 2

Question 1

Polysyndeton

Answer 1

Deliberate use of many conjunctions.

(The effect of polysyndeton is too slow down the rhythen of the sentence.)

Ex: I said, Who killed him?

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. Overused, it sounds silly.

Ex: “Already American vessels has been searched, seized, and sank.”

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature.

Ex: “All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.”

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature.

Ex: “The night is bleeding like a cut.”

Question 5

Synecdoche

Answer 5

Figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole

Ex: All HANDS on deck.

Question 6

Metonymy

Answer 6

Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant

Ex: “The White House asked the television networks for air time on Monday night.”

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities.

Ex: “The flowers danced in the wind as the leaves of the trees sang in the breeze.”