Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art

Question 3

Analogy

Answer 3

comparison of two things - using something well known to explain something less well known

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

Question 5

Antimetabole

Answer 5

repetition of words in reverse order

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

using contrast in language to bring out contrast in ideas

Question 7

Archaic Diction

Answer 7

old-fashioned or outdated choice of words

Question 8

Asyndeton

Answer 8

omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 9

Chiasmus

Answer 9

ABBA word order

Question 10

Cumulative Sentence

Answer 10

sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on

Question 11

Distinctio

Answer 11

elaborates on a definition of word in order to clarify

Question 12

eponym

Answer 12

referring to a specific famous person to link their attributes with someone else
or refers to smething that is name after a person ex. gerrymandering

Question 13

exemplum

Answer 13

providing a example to illustrate your point

Question 14

hyperbole

Answer 14

providing a example to illustrate your point

Question 15

hortative sentence

Answer 15

sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action