Shakespeare's Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Anadiplosis

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Anthimeria

Answer 3

Substitution of one part of speech for another

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 7

Chiasmus

Answer 7

Two corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse order

Question 8

Diacope

Answer 8

Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

Question 9

Epanalepsis

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Epimone

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Epistrophe

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Hyperbaton

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Malapropism

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant

Question 15

Paralepsis

Answer 15

Emphasising a point by seeming to pass over it

Question 16

Parallelism

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Parenthesis

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Polysyndeton

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Synecdoche

Answer 19

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