Shakespeare Devices

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of the same initial consonant sound throughout a line of verse

Question 2

anadiplosis

Answer 2

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

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

anthimeria

Answer 4

substitution of one part of speech for another

Question 5

antithesis

Answer 5

juxtaposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Question 6

assonance

Answer 6

repetition or similarity of the same internal vowel sound in words of close proximity

Question 7

asyndeton

Answer 7

omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 8

chiasmus

Answer 8

two corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse order

Question 9

diacope

Answer 9

repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

Question 10

ellipsis

Answer 10

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

Question 11

epanalepsis

Answer 11

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

Question 12

epimone

Answer 12

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

Question 13

epistrophe

Answer 13

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

Question 14

hyperbaton

Answer 14

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

Question 15

malapropism

Answer 15

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

Question 16

metaphor

Answer 16

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

Question 17

metonymy

Answer 17

substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant (e.g., “crown” for royalty)

Question 18

onomatopoeia

Answer 18

use of words to imitate natural sounds

Question 19

paralepsis

Answer 19

emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it

Question 20

parallelism

Answer 20

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

Question 21

parenthesis

Answer 21

insertion of some word or clause in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence (asides are rather emphatic examples of this)

Question 22

polysyndeton

Answer 22

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

Question 23

simile

Answer 23

an explicit comparison between two things using “like” or “as”

Question 24

synecdoche

Answer 24

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