Rhetoric Devices

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

• overcome/overwhelmed by emotion

* addressing a person or thing, either present of absent

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

•repetition of the same word
•beginning of the clause
“To think on death is a misery / To think in life is a vanity / To think that here man have no perfect bliss”

Question 3

Epistrophe

Answer 3

•repetition of the same word / words
•end of the clause
“And all the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea”

Question 4

Enumeratio

Answer 4

•listing details, effects etc

“Who’s gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It’s chocolate; its peppermint; its delicious”

Question 5

Antimetabole

Answer 5

•reversed order of repeating words or phrases (AB-BA)

“All work and no play is as harmful as all play and no work”

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

•contrasting 2 ideas by juxtaposing them (next to each other)
•parallel, opposites
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

Question 7

Appositive

Answer 7

•adding unnecessary info (usually at the middle of a sentence)
“A notorious annual feast, the picnic was well attended”

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

•repeating similar vowels

“A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid”

Question 9

Asyndeton

Answer 9

•omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses

“Upon his return he received medals, honors, treasures, fame”

Question 10

Epithet

Answer 10

•adjective naming important characteristic of the subject

“Laughing happiness” “sneering contempt” “untroubled sleep” “peaceful dawn” “livegiving water”

Question 11

Metonymy

Answer 11

•something larger stands for something smaller

“The orders came from the White House” “You can’t fight city hall”

Question 12

Paralepsis

Answer 12

•emphasizing a point by passing over it

“I would tell you how much he stole, but you would t believe it”

Question 13

Rhetorical question

Answer 13

•obvious answer, usually yes or no
•used for emphasis or provocation, for drawing a conclusionary statement
“Do we want our food choices to be limited to dried out cafeteria hamburgers?!”

Question 14

Scesis Onomaton

Answer 14

•emphasizing an idea by using synonyms, obvious restatement
“We succeeded, we were victorious, we accomplished the feat”
“High school West, classmates, teachers- listen to me!

Question 15

Synecdoche

Answer 15

metaphor
•part stands for the whole
“Farmer Jones had 200 HEAD of cattle and 3 tired HANDS”

Question 16

Polysyndeton

Answer 16

opposite of asyndeton
•use of conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause
•feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and build up
“He pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies”