Practice with Rhetorical Devices

___________________ means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.

• anthimeria

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• antithesis

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• apposition

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• antithesis

________________ means: a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it

• parallelism

• anaphora

• apposition

• rhetorical question

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

______________ means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antimetabole

_________________ means: A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern

• asyndeton

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

• antimetabole

_____________ means: repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• anthimeria

• apposition

_________________ means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe