Rhetorical Devices in Shakespeare's _The Tempest_

Read the quote. Then select which of the following rhetorical devices it contains. Caliban: “I had peopled else this isle / with Calibans” (1.2.420-21).

• anaphora

• antonomasia

• alliteration

• antithesis

Miranda compliments her father's storytelling abilities by declaring, "Your tale, sir, would cure deafness” (1.2.127). This is an example of

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• litotes
• parallelism

Prospero reminds Ariel, “Imprisoned thou didst painfully remain” (1.2.331). The syntax of this statement is an example of

• paralleilism
• apposition
• simile
• anastrophe

In Act II, Alonso berates Gonzalo, “You cram these words into mine ears against / The stomach of my sense” (2.1.112-113). This angry retort makes use of

• assonance
• personification
• synecdoche
• anastrophe

After the shipwreck, Ariel reassures Prospero that no one was harmed: “Not a hair perished” (1.2.257). This is an example of

• synecdoche
• litotes
• anthimeria
• antanaclasis

Which rhetorical device does the following quote contain? “Temperence was a delicate wench” (2.1.46).

• simile
• allusion
• personification
• ellipsis

When Caliban accuses Prospero, “and here you sty me / in this hard rock” (1.2.409-10), he's using which of the following? (Hint "sty" is usually a noun.)

• anapodoton
• anthimeria
• ellipsis
• chiasmus

Read the quote. Then select which of the following rhetorical devices it contains. “She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells / Ten leagues beyond man’s life…” (2.1.282-83)

• asyndeton
• anadiplosis
• epistrophe
• apposition

Which device does Sebastian use when he remarks to Antonio, “I am standing water” (2.1.248)?

• neologism

• anacoluthon

• metaphor

• polyptoton

One of Ariel's songs contains the line, “Foot it featly here and there” (1.2.456). This is an example of

• anthimeria
• epenthis
• polysyndeton
• enallage