Rhetorical strategies Quiz

A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced by parallel structure

Aposiopesis

Hendiadys

Antithesis

Antistrophe

The substitution of a more offensive,blunt, vulgar, or disparaging word or phrase for one considered neutral or less offensive.

Connotation

Dysphemism

Aphorism

Antithesis

A figurative and analogous comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

Analogy

Simlie

metaphor

Allegory

A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.

Metaphore

Synecdoche

Simlie

Metonymy

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

Apostrophe

Aposiopesis

Antistrophe

Personification

A more agreeable or less offensive substitution for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

Anadiplosis

Paraprosdokian

Euphemism

Alliteration

stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series

Alliteration

Analogy

Antistrophe

Antithesis

Repetition of the last word or phrase of one clause at the beginning of the following or successive clause

Anaphora

aposiopesis

Anadiplosis

Antistrophe

Any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the facts at hand.

Synesthesia question

The rhetorical question

Paradox question

Hendiadys

Surprise or unexpected ending to a sentence, phrase or thought

A figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words together represent one idea (e.g. "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness")

Use of two words connected by a conjunction (typically and & or), instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea.

A construction in which one word is used in two different senses

Metonymy

A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.

Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another

Repetition of the last word or phrase of one clause at the beginning of the following or successive clause

Hendiatris

Use of two words connected by a conjunction (typically and & or), instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea

A figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words together represent one idea

A construction in which one word is used in two different senses

Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences

Paraprosdokian

Surprise or unexpected ending to a sentence, phrase or thought

Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. In other words, using parallel structure to contrast two ideas

The substitution of a more offensive, blunt, vulgar, or disparaging word or phrase for one considered neutral or less offensive

Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences

Aposiopesis

Anaphora

Anadiplosis

Antistrophe

Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another

Asyndeton

Syllepsis

Synestesia

Antistrophe

A construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("I'm losing my patience and my mind")

Syllepsis

Synesthesia

Pun

Assonance

Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anaphora

Polysyndeton

Antistrophe

Anadiplosis

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