rhetorical terms

Question 1

parallelism

Answer 1

I am woman; I am mother; I am fierce.

Question 2

isocolon

Answer 2

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

Question 3

antithesis

Answer 3

small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind

Question 4

anastrophe

Answer 4

Into the water dove the boy

Question 5

paranthesis

Answer 5

The college University of Southern Cailfornia (USC) is having an open house

Question 6

Ellipsis

Answer 6

So…what happened?

Question 7

asyndeton

Answer 7

i came, i saw, i conquered

Question 8

alliteration

Answer 8

the black bug bit the brown bear

Question 9

assoance

Answer 9

johnny went here there and everywhere

Question 10

anaphora

Answer 10

every moring I go to school, every night i go to work and every weekend i sleep

Question 11

epistrophe

Answer 11

I want pizza, he wants pizza, we all want pizza!

Question 12

epanalepsis

Answer 12

nothing is worse than doing nothing

Question 13

anadiplosis

Answer 13

When we win, we win big!

Question 14

climax

Answer 14

When Gaston and the townspeople come to attack the beast, and Belle admits her love for the beast

Question 15

antimetabole

Answer 15

Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country

Question 16

chiasmus

Answer 16

Her life was full of children, and her children full of life.

Question 17

polyptoton

Answer 17

I dreamed a dream of days gone by

Question 18

metaphor

Answer 18

The snow is a white blanke

Question 19

simile

Answer 19

the car was as fast as lighting

Question 20

synecdoche

Answer 20

Referring to a car as “wheels”

Question 21

metonymy

Answer 21

Dish - for an entire plate of food

Question 22

antanaclasis

Answer 22

Your argument is sound … all sound

Question 23

personification

Answer 23

Lightning danced across the sky.

Question 24

hyperbole

Answer 24

I am so hungry I could eat a horse

Question 25

litotes

Answer 25

You won’t be sorry!

Question 26

rhetorical questions

Answer 26

Did you expect me to do anything less than my very best?

Question 27

irony

Answer 27

the song ironic not being ironic

Question 28

onomatapia

Answer 28

boom

Question 29

oxymoron

Answer 29

jumbo shirmp

Question 30

paradox

Answer 30

I know one thing; that I know nothing.

Question 31

allegory

Answer 31

animal farm’s meaning about political events

Question 32

allusion

Answer 32

while sue was lost in the woods she clicked her heels 3 times hoping she would go home

Question 33

analogy

Answer 33

The snow was a blanket over the houses

Question 34

antecedent

Answer 34

The weather is great today; let’s make the most of it by going to the beach.

Question 35

aphorism

Answer 35

Good things come to those who wait.

Question 36

Atmosphere

Answer 36

The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe

Question 37

caricature

Answer 37

Her ears were smoking she was so mad

Question 38

clause

Answer 38

I want some cereal

Question 39

Colloquialism

Answer 39

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