Rhetorical devices

Question 1

What is syntactical parallelism?

Answer 1

Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the BEGINNING of phrases or sentences

Question 2

What is an antistrophe?

Answer 2

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase and the END of a phrase or a sentence

Question 3

What is jargon?

Answer 3

Specialised lexis for the particular topic

Question 4

What is a personal pronoun?

Answer 4

A word that refers to a person

Question 5

Describe emotive language

Answer 5

Language that deliberately heightens the receiver’s sense of emotion

Question 6

What is a metaphor?

Answer 6

A comparison of two things that are different

Question 7

What is a simile?

Answer 7

A comparison of two things that are different using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 8

Describe personification

Answer 8

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 9

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 9

Purposely asking a question where the answer is obvious to the reader’s to emphasise the point being made

Question 10

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 10

Speech using deliberate exaggeration to evoke strong feelings in the receiver that is not intended literally

Question 11

What is a rhetorical triplet?

Answer 11

Consecutive grouping of three words or phrases to emphasise a particular point