FIGURES OF SPEECH (WORD PLAY)

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Mastering Figures of Speech

Test your knowledge on figures of speech with our engaging quiz that covers various rhetorical devices and their meanings. This quiz is designed for anyone interested in enhancing their language skills and understanding the art of wordplay.

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This figure of speech is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, thereby, lending them emphasis.

ANTIMETABOLE

ANAPHORA

ANTITHESIS

ASYNDETON

This is a Greek word which means “turning about.” This involves repeating a phrase in reverse order

ANTIMETABOLE

ANTITHESIS

ASYNDETON

METONYMY

This is a rhetorical term for the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses. This is used when the writer employs two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.

SYNECDOCHE

ASYNDETON

METONYMY

ANTITHESIS

This is a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses. This is used to produce a hurried rhythm in a sentence.

SYNECDOCHE

METONYMY

ASYNDETON

ALLUSION

This figure of speech is called this when one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly be referring to things around it.

ALLUSION

METONYMY

SYNECDOCHE

PARADOX

This is the figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa.

ALLUSION

PARADOX

IRONY

SYNECDOCHE

FIGURES OF SPEECH (WORD PLAY)

Mastering Figures of Speech

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