Second Sixteen

Question 1

Syllepsis

Answer 1

Applying a verb to multiple nouns

- he took his leave and his life

Question 2

Isocolon

Answer 2

Two clauses or sentences that are gramatically and structurally the same.

• roses are red, violets are blue.

Question 3

Enallage

Answer 3

Deliberate grammatical mistake

Question 4

Zeugma

Answer 4

Using one instance of a verb for more than one clause

• prozeugma = verb in the first clause
• hypozeugma = verb in the second clause

Question 5

Paradox

Answer 5

The art of being two mutually exclusive things at once.

- To dream the impossible dream

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

First half of a phrase mirrored in the second

- All for one and one for all

Question 7

Catachresis

Answer 7

Incorrect grammar that sounds memorable

• looking daggers
• thunderbirds are go

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

Affirming something by saying the opposite.

- Not a drum was heard

Question 9

Metonymy

Answer 9

The thing described as something it is physically touching.

- A suit = businessman

Question 10

Synecdoche

Answer 10

Describing a person as a body part

• and did those feet in ancient times

Question 11

Transferred epithet

Answer 11

Applying the adjective to the wrong noun

• he smoked a nervous cigarette

Question 12

Pleonasm

Answer 12

The use of redundant words

Question 13

Epanalepsis

Answer 13

Beginning and ending with the same word

Question 14

Adynaton

Answer 14

An impossible statement.

• pigs will fly

Question 15

Bdelygmia

Answer 15

A list of insults.

Question 16

Scesis onamaton

Answer 16

A verbless sentence to set the scene