Rhetorical Devices - A

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repitition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.

Ex: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to person, place, something.

Ex: Because she helped Sister Eulodia, she was a Good Samaritan.

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Reptition of word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

Ex: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

Question 3

Antimetabole

Answer 3

Repitition of words in reverse order.

Ex: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

Opposition of ideas in a parallel construction.

Ex: Many are called, but few are chosen.

Question 5

Archaic diction

Answer 5

old-fashioned choice of words.

Ex: asunder, hither

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

Omission of conjunctions between phrases, clause, or words.

Ex: Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?