Rhetorical devices

Question 1

allegory

Answer 1

a story written that contains a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

when you use words that have the same sound/letter at the beginning,
ex: shake so my single state (macbeth)

Question 3

allusion

Answer 3

referencing another work, historical, person or event

Question 4

analogy

Answer 4

compares two things together to clarify the idea

ex: Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

Question 5

anecdote

Answer 5

brief tale narrating an interesting personal incident

ex: the summer I turned 13 was full of adventures

Question 6

anti climax

Answer 6

exciting event and then suddenly something boring or disappointing happens; this is an anti-climax.

Question 7

antithesis

Answer 7

is a rhetorical device using two opposite ideas put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

ex: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Question 8

chiasmus(reverse parallelism)

Answer 8

the first sentence relates to the second sentence making it paralleled(balance) only in reverse order

ex: Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you

Question 9

climax

Answer 9

arranging of sentences to create importance or emotional force on the one topic ex Susans reply is..
ex: susan’s reply annoyed her brother, angered her mother and enraged her husband

ex: This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men,
importance: The note

Question 10

colloquialism

Answer 10

known as slang
informal talking
ex: whose kid is watching the tube (tv)

Question 11

diction

Answer 11

choice of words
Ex: happy vs estatic
sad vs depressed

Question 12

understatement

Answer 12

form of speech using less expression that expected. Make a situation seem less important than it really is.
ex: you win the lottery and all u say is “im delighted”

Question 13

tone

Answer 13

creator creates attitude to the story

ex: humorous, sarcastic, dramatic

Question 14

simile

Answer 14

comparison using like or as

Question 15

rhetorical question

Answer 15

figure of speech to allow readers to reflect on the question

ex:how many roads must a man walk down before they call him a man?

Question 16

repetition

Answer 16

repeating a word or phase to allow the readers to remember

ex: there is no mistake, there has been no mistake

Question 17

pun

Answer 17

the humorous use of a word or phrase to emphasize or suggest its different meaning
ex: How do construction workers party? They raise the roof.

Question 18

personification

Answer 18

inanimate objects having human characteristics

Question 19

parody

Answer 19

imitate something in a funny way

ex: saturday night live, Hilary Clinton vs Donald Trump

Question 20

paradox

Answer 20

making a statement that is contradicting but also true
(something that is true but seems to be untrue)
ex: fair is foul, foul is fair

Question 21

hyperbole

Answer 21

exaggeration on idea

ex: its raining cats and dogs

Question 22

imagery

Answer 22

creating a visual picture using words

Question 23

metaphor

Answer 23

comparison between 2 unrelated things

the first object is described as having the properties of the second object

Question 24

periodicity

Answer 24

placing a subject, verb or object at the end of the sentence so the main idea aint clear until the end of the sentence
ex: Macbeth, he learned that fleance had escaped and that Macduff has fled to England, was distraught.