16 Questions
What is the rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of words or syllables?
Alliteration
Which rhetorical device involves addressing a person who is not present?
Apostrophe
What is the term for the omission of conjunctions in a sentence?
Asyndeton
Which rhetorical device involves the inversion of the usual word order?
Anastrophe
What is the term for the use of two nouns together to express a noun modified by an adjective?
Hendiadys
Which rhetorical device involves the use of a negative to express a strong positive?
Litotes
Which rhetorical device involves the use of words that sound like their meaning?
Onomatopoeia
What is the term for the use of an apparent contradiction?
Oxymoron
What rhetorical device involves the substitution of one word for another that it suggests?
Metonymy
Which device involves the use of superfluous words?
Pleonasm
What is the term for the use of part to express a whole?
Synecdoche
Which device involves the separation of a compound word into two parts?
Tmesis
What is the term for the use of many conjunctions?
Polysyndeton
Which rhetorical device involves the use of a comparison using a word like sicut, similis, or velut?
Simile
'Aeneas carried grief and his father from Troy' exemplifies which rhetorical device?
Zeugma
'The rocks themselves grieve' exemplifies which rhetorical device?
Personification
Test your knowledge of rhetorical and literary devices with this quiz. Identify and understand devices such as alliteration, anaphora, anastrophe, and aposiopesis through examples and definitions.
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