Rhetorical Devices

Question 0

Dramatic Irony

Answer 0

A character or speaker says or does something that has different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and other characters understand the full implications of the speech or action

Question 1

Rhetorical Device

Answer 1

Created through grammatical constructions to evoke an emotional response in the audience

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis

Question 3

Surrealism

Answer 3

A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. Art and texts feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapostions (realism and dream-state) and lack of humor.

Question 4

Aposiopesis

Answer 4

Device wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue

Question 5

Anastrophe

Answer 5

Device in which a language’s natural word order is inverted

Question 6

Epanalepsis

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A figure of speech defined by the repition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence. The beginning at the end are two positions of stronger emphasts in a sentence; so, by having the same phrase in both places, the speaker calls special attention to it- another rhetorical device

Question 7

Isocolon

Answer 7

Involves repitition of the same grammatical structure in 2 or more phrases or clauses. This means the grammatcal structures are parallel forms, typically with the same number of words.

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

Placement side by side

Question 9

Repetition

Answer 9

Recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzas for emphasis