Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repitition of the same letter or sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words.

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

The repitition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses.

Question 3

Anastrophe

Answer 3

The inversion of the normal order of words.

Question 4

Ecphrasis

Answer 4

An extended and elaborate description of a work of art, a building, or a natural setting.

Question 5

Ellipsis

Answer 5

The omission of one or more words which must be logically supplied in order to create a grammatically complete expression.

Question 6

Enallage

Answer 6

The transference of an epithet from the word to which it stricly belongs to another word connected with it in thought.

Question 7

Enjambment

Answer 7

The continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next.

Question 8

Hendiadys

Answer 8

The expression of an idea by means of two nouns connected by a conjunction instead of by a noun and a modifying adjective, or by one noun modified by another.

Question 9

Hyperbaton

Answer 9

The distanced placement of two (or more) words which are logically meant to be understood together.

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

The exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

Question 11

Metonymy

Answer 11

The substitution of one word for another which it suggests.

Question 12

Onomatopoeia

Answer 12

The use of words the sound of which suggests the sense.

Question 13

Polysyndeton

Answer 13

An overbundance of conjunctions.

Question 14

Rhetorical Question

Answer 14

A question that anticipates no real answer.

Question 15

Simile

Answer 15

A figure of speech which likens or asserts an explicit comparison between two different things.

Question 16

Synchysis

Answer 16

Interlocking word order.

Question 17

Synizesis

Answer 17

A metrical effect whereby two contiguous vowels within the same word and normally pronounced seperately are slurred into one syllable.

Question 18

Prolepsis

Answer 18

The inclusion of references that will happen later in the stories.

Question 19

Asyndeton

Answer 19

The omission of conjunctions.

Question 20

Aposiopesis

Answer 20

The breaking off in the middle of a sentence.

Question 21

Chiasmus

Answer 21

The repitition of similar ideas in reverse order.

Question 22

Ecphrasis

Answer 22

An extended and elaborated description of a work of art.

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

The attribution of human characteristics to an inanimate object.

Question 24

Enjambment

Answer 24

The continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next.