rhetorical and poetic devices

Question 1

repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the end of one phrase or clause and the beginning of the nect

Answer 1

anadiplosis

Question 2

repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning

Answer 2

anaphora

Question 3

repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the end

Answer 3

epistrophe

Question 4

the use of the same word or phrase at the beginning and end of a sentence

Answer 4

epanalepsis

Question 5

the consecutive repetition of a word, often in a pattern of three

Answer 5

epizeuxis

Question 6

terms linked together in a different sense of meaning (one literal and one figurative)

Answer 6

syllepsis

Question 7

the omission of a word

Answer 7

ellipsis

Question 8

using one part of sleep as another (verbing a noun)

Answer 8

anthimeria

Question 9

when words appear in unexpected order (yoda talk)

Answer 9

anastrophe

Question 10

the repetition of grammatical structures

Answer 10

parallelism

Question 11

contrasting ideas expressed in parallel form

Answer 11

antithesis

Question 12

an inversion of grammatical structure, idea, or sound (abba)

Answer 12

chiasmus

Question 13

a sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length

Answer 13

tricolon

Question 14

asking one or more questions and then proceeding to answer those questions

Answer 14

hypophera

Question 15

a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow

Answer 15

metabasis

Question 16

anticipates an objection that might be raised by the audience and responds to it

Answer 16

procatalepsis

Question 17

the strategy of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses in a list

Answer 17

asyndeton

Question 18

the use of conjunctinon between each word, phrase, or clause for the purpose of sounding heavily labored

Answer 18

polysyndeton

Question 19

the deliberate expression of an idea as less important than it actually is

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understatement

Question 20

deliberate exaggeration of conditions for emphasis or effect

Answer 20

hyperbole

Question 21

a list that increases by degrees in importance, weight, or magnitude

Answer 21

climax

Question 22

when the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Answer 22

dramatic irony

Question 23

saying one thing but meaning something else

Answer 23

verbal irony

Question 24

expecting one thing to happen but getting something else

Answer 24

situational irony

Question 25

a question that does not call for an answer and actually makes a statement

Answer 25

erotema

Question 26

the act of correcting oneself

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metanoia

Question 27

calling attention to a point by seeming to dismiss or ignore it

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praeteritio

Question 28

breaking off a statement midway in order to create a rhetorical effect

Answer 28

aposiopesis

Question 29

pause or break within a line of poetry

Answer 29

caesura

Question 30

when the ideas runs on from one line to the next

Answer 30

enjambment

Question 31

a word whose sound imitates the word it describes

Answer 31

onomatopoeia

Question 32

what are two things that inform you that the poem is a shakespearean sonnet?

Answer 32

1. there are 14 lines

2. Volta

Question 33

emphasis on words

Answer 33

meter

Question 34

appears before the final couplet, unexpected shift

Answer 34

volta