Rhetoric B-E

Question 1

Climax

Answer 1

Mounting by degrees through linked words or phrases

I went from neutral, to frustrated, to angry, to rabid in thirty seconds

Question 2

Chiasmus

Answer 2

A type of parallelism in which the balanced elements are presented in reverse order
The code breakers worked constantly but rarely succeeded

Question 3

Ellipsis

Answer 3

The omission of a word easily supplied
She ate two cupcakes, I ate three cupcakes

Question 4

Erotema

Answer 4

A question that is asked without expecting an answer (rhetorical question)
In this age of modernity, can we truly condone such horrific acts?

Question 5

Caricature

Answer 5

When a description given in a text that exaggerated features for a comic effect
The wicked stepmother

Question 6

Epistrophe

Answer 6

Repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of a phrase
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place
Same and Home

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

When a syntactic thought runs from one line to another line
I wandered lonely as a cloud… That floats on high o’er vales and hills

Question 9

Caesura

Answer 9

When there is a pause created by either the completion of a syntactic though or the placement of a punctuation mark
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene

Question 10

End rhyme

Answer 10

Rhyme at the end of a line
And all the boards did shrink… Nor any drop to drink