Rhetorical Devices 4

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

addressing someone or some personified abstraction that is not physically present.

Question 2

Synesthesia

Answer 2

Mixing one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way, such as speaking of how a color sounds , or how a smell looks.

Question 3

Synecdoche

Answer 3

figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Antanaclasis

Answer 5

repetition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance.

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities.

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

deliberate use of understatement through negation

Question 9

Rhetorical Question

Answer 9

asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but to assert or deny an answer.

Question 10

Irony

Answer 10

use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

use of words whose sound echoes the sense

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

the joining to two terms which are ordinarily contradictory

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth

Question 14

Puns (Paronomasia)

Answer 14

a pun twists the meaning of words, often to create a humorous effect.

Question 15

Zeugma

Answer 15

artfully using one verb with two or more different objects.