Rhetorical Figures

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

the same consonant or stressed syllable being repeated at the
beginning of successive words

Question 2

Anadiplósis

Answer 2

word/s at the end of a clause being repeated in the next

Question 3

Anáphora

Answer 3

Beginning successive clauses or sentences with the same words

Question 4

Antíthesis

Answer 4

– contrasting ideas arranged in close proxity to each other

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

Suddenly moving from addressing one person or topic to

another; often used to denote an address to an abstraction

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

The recurrence in close proximity of the same or similar vowel
sounds

Question 7

Chiasmus

Answer 7

Repetition of same phrases in successive clauses but in reverse
order

Question 8

Climax

Answer 8

last word or phrase of the first clause being repeated at the
beginning of the second, the last words of the second being repeated at the
beginning of the third, and so on, i.e. more than three instances of Anadiplósis

Question 9

Epístrophe

Answer 9

Repeating same word/s at the end of successive clauses

Question 10

Metónymy

Answer 10

• Replacing a word with another closely associated with it, as
  when Prospero says to his faithful servant, Ariel, in the Tempest

Question 11

Párison

Answer 11

Repeating the same grammatical construction in successive
clauses or sentences. If they are identical in length, the figure is also called
isocolon (not the case here):

Question 12

Períphrasis

Answer 12

i. a way of describing something that would normally be said
more briefly

Question 13

Polýptoton

Answer 13

– repeating the same word-base with different affixes (e.g.

human, inhuman, humanity):

Question 14

Prosopopóéia or Personification

Answer 14

investing the inanimate with human

attributes

Question 15

Synecdoche

Answer 15

replacing the whole or general with a part or particular, or
vice versa