Rhetorical Devices REVERSE

Question 1

Repetition of the same initial consonant sound

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

The repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain”

Answer 2

Anadiplosis

Question 3

Repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses

“Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!”

Answer 3

Anaphora

Question 4

Using one part of speech as another part of speech, such as using a noun as if it were a verb

“The little old lady turtled along the road”

Answer 4

Anthimeria

Question 5

Juxtaposition/ contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”

Answer 5

Antithesis

Question 6

Repetition or similarity of the same internal vowel sound

Answer 6

Assonance

Question 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

“Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”

Answer 7

Asyndeton

Question 8

Two corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse order

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Answer 8

Chiasmus

Question 9

Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

“Put out the light, and then put out the light”

Answer 9

Diacope

Question 10

The selection of words in a literary work

A work’s diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values

Answer 10

Diction

Question 11

Omission of one or more words, which are assumed by the listener or reader

“And he to England shall along with you”

Answer 11

Ellipsis

Question 12

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

“Blood hath bought blood”

Answer 12

Epanalepsis

Question 13

Frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point

“And ain’t I a woman?” x3

Answer 13

Epimone

Question 14

Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

“I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.”

Answer 14

Epistrophe

Question 15

Altering word order, or separation of words that belong together, for emphasis

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”

Answer 15

Hyperbaton

Question 16

A figure of speech involving exaggeration

Answer 16

Hyperbole

Question 17

A confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replaced by one with similar sound but (often ludicrously) inappropriate meaning

“Alice said she couldn’t eat crabs or any other crushed Asians. (crustaceans)”

Answer 17

Malapropism

Question 18

Implied comparison between two unlike things achieved through the figurative use of words

“You’re a pig”

Answer 18

Metaphor

Question 19

Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant

“The pen is mightier than the sword”

Answer 19

Metonymy

Question 20

Use of words to imitate natural sounds

“buzz”

Answer 20

Onomatopoeia

Question 21

Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it

“I’m not saying I’m responsible for this country’s longest run of uninterrupted peace in 35 years! I’m not saying that from the ashes of captivity, never has a Phoenix metaphor been more personified!”

Answer 21

Paralipsis

Question 22

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

“I am woman; I am mother; I am fierce.”

Answer 22

Parallelism

Question 23

Insertion of some word or clause in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence, such as asides

“…Then shall our names,

Familiar in his mouth as household words—

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—

Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.”

Answer 23

Parenthesis

Question 24

The repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses

“I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied”

Answer 24

Polysyndeton

Question 25

An explicit comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

“My love is as a fever, longing still

For that which longer nurseth the disease”

Answer 25

Simile

Question 26

The use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part

“Bread and Butter”

Answer 26

Synecdoche