rhetorical device words

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Question 2

Antithesis

Answer 2

Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

Question 3

Anastrophe

Answer 3

The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.(Yoda)

Question 4

Subordinate clause

Answer 4

subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence

Question 5

Polyptoton

Answer 5

the repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings

Question 6

Simple sentence

Answer 6

a sentence with only one clause

Question 7

Compound sentence

Answer 7

more than one subject or predicate

Question 8

Convoluted sentence

Answer 8

complex and difficult to follow

Question 9

Ellipsis

Answer 9

………

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

getting rid of clauses between ideas (he was weak, feeble, sad)

Question 11

Polysyndeton

Answer 11

opposite of asyndeton, many conjunctions between ideas

Question 12

Anecdote

Answer 12

short amusing story

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

using the same letter in the beginning of every word

Question 14

Assonance

Answer 14

repetition of identical or similar vowels

Question 15

Anaphora

Answer 15

the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence

Question 16

Epistrophe

Answer 16

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Question 17

Epanalepsis

Answer 17

a phrase or set of words repeated later on in a speech or text as a rhetorical device

Question 18

Anadiplosis

Answer 18

repetition of the last word or words of one phrase or sentence at the beginning of the next.

Question 19

Chiasmus

Answer 19

words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order

Question 20

Syllogism

Answer 20

logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion