Rhetoric

Question 1

Accumlatio

Answer 1

Repetition in other words
example: How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable!

Question 2

Anadiplosis

Answer 2

Repetition of an end at the next beginning
example: for love’s sake-a word that loves all men-or for men’s sake-the authors of these women-or women’s sake

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of beginnings
example: I am a woman. I am an educator. I am a baker.

Question 4

Anastrophe

Answer 4

Arrangement by reversing the order of two words
example: -which by us shall blessed be

Question 5

Antanaclasis

Answer 5

Repetition in different senses
example: put out the light and then put out the light

Question 6

Anthimeria

Answer 6

Substitution of one part of speech for another
example: verbing weirds language

Question 7

Antimetabole

Answer 7

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
example: But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace

Question 8

Antithesis

Answer 8

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
example: Just without partiality, mighty without, contradiction, liberal without losing, wise without curiosity

Question 9

Aporia

Answer 9

Asking and answering your own question
example: Why am I like this? Because it’s how I was raised.

Question 10

Aposiopesis

Answer 10

Omission by breaking off suddenly in the middle of speech
example: He must be hanged, a damned death-

Question 11

Asyndeton

Answer 11

Omission of conjunctions from clauses
example: silent, mournful, abandoned, broken

Question 12

Auxesis

Answer 12

Arrangement by ascending importance
example: how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable!

Question 13

Chiasmus

Answer 13

Repetition of ideas in inverted order
example: When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Question 14

Diacope

Answer 14

Repetition with a word or two in between
example: a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
Richard loves Richard

Question 15

Epanados

Answer 15

Repetition in the opposite order
example: fair is foul and foul is fair
(a form of chiasmus)

Question 16

Epanalepsis

Answer 16

Repetition of the beginning at the end
example: in times like these, it helps to remember there have always been times like these

Question 17

Epanorthosis

Answer 17

addition by correction
example: I am angry- no, furious-about this!

Question 18

Epistrophe

Answer 18

Repetition of endings
example: Hi, Jasmine. It’s nice to see you, Jasmine! How are you, Jasmine?

Question 19

Epizuexis

Answer 19

Repetition immediately
example: Fuck, fuck, fuck!

Question 20

Erotema

Answer 20

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
example: Why are you so stupid?

Question 21

Hyperbaton

Answer 21

Arrangement by reversal of word or phrase order
example: Yoda-speak! when 900-years-old you reach, look as good you will not

Question 22

Isocolon

Answer 22

Repetition of grammatical forms/structure
example: As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice it

Question 23

Metonymy

Answer 23

Substitution of container for contained
example: throw the book at them (prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law - don’t actually throw a book)

Question 24

Polysyndeton

Answer 24

Addition of conjunctions
example: swims or sinks or wades or creeps or flies

Question 25

Synechdoche

Answer 25

Substitution of the part of the whole
example: I like your race. Take thy face hence

Question 26

Symploce

Answer 26

Repetition of both beginning and ending
example: Another is wise, yet I am well. Another is virtuous, yet I am well.
(Anaphora & epistrophe get married)

Question 27

Tmesis

Answer 27

Arrangement of one word into two
example: Unbe-fuckin-lievable

Question 28

Zeugma

Answer 28

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
example: You go this way, we that