Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Aporia

Answer 1

To be, or not to be - that is the question

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being, renames the noun

Question 3

Appositive

Answer 3

the car, betsy, was blue.

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

His tender heir might bear his memory, sound in middle repeats

Question 5

Catachresis

Answer 5

Harsh metaphor, heavy as a feather

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

I many not be as bad as the worst, but I am as good as the best, first part mirrors the second

Question 7

Enthymeme

Answer 7

All insects have 6 legs, therefore all wasps have six legs, missing piece of info to make a conclusion

Question 8

Epistrophe

Answer 8

Repition of phrase at end of phrase, see no evil, hear no evil

Question 9

Litotes/Understatement

Answer 9

understatement, not the worst,

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

replacing a word with an associated thing, crown for king,

Question 11

Parenthesis

Answer 11

you, to put mildly, are annoying, inserting a phrase /word, adds info

Question 12

Scesis Onomaton

Answer 12

gloomy, sad, dreary, series of words with similar meanings

Question 13

Syllogism

Answer 13

all english teachers are cool, mr is an English teacher, Mr is cool. Making a conclusion based on two related statments.

Question 14

Synecdoche

Answer 14

hungry mouths to feed, mouths is refering to a whole thing, mouths are a part of people

Question 15

Zeugma

Answer 15

He fished for trouts and compliments, the first part relates to the two other things

Question 16

Parataxis

Answer 16

clauses/ phrases placed beside eachother that dont necessarily make sense but make sense, I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 17

Anaphora

Answer 17

repetition at begening