Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

inversion of the natural or usual word order

Answer 1

anastophe

Question 2

placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first

Answer 2

apposition

Question 3

deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context

Answer 3

ellipsis

Question 4

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses

Answer 4

asyndeton

Question 5

deliberate use of many conjunctions

Answer 5

polysyndeton

Question 6

repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses

Answer 6

anaphora

Question 7

repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses

Answer 7

epistrophe

Question 8

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

Answer 8

epanalepsis

Question 9

repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Answer 9

anadiplosis

Question 10

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Answer 10

antimetabole

Question 11

reversal of grammatical structures in successive sentences

Answer 11

chiasmus

Question 12

repetition of words derived from the same root

Answer 12

polyptoton

Question 13

figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole

Answer 13

synecdoche

Question 14

substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant

Answer 14

metonymy

Question 15

the substitution of one part of speech for another

Answer 15

anthimeria

Question 16

substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name

Answer 16

periphrasis

Question 17

deliberate use of understatement, stated in the negative

Answer 17

litotes