The rhetorical device that consists of arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis.
What is climax?
100
A scheme that repeats the initial consonant sounds of words or phrases.
What is alliteration?
100
The book from which examples of nearly every rhetorical device can be taken.
What is the Bible?
100
A trope in which human qualities or abilities are assigned to abstractions or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
100
"The night comes crawling on all fours."
What is personification?
200
The rhetorical device wherein several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance.
What is parallelism?
200
The scheme that repeats the vowel sounds of words or phrases.
What is assonance?
200
The blind and deaf writer who used numerous rhetorical devices to bittersweetly paint a picture of life before she lost her senses of sight and hearing.
Who is Helen Keller?
200
A trope that connects two contradictory terms.
What is oxymoron?
200
"...from the clamor and clangor of the bells."
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The rhetorical device that consists of omitting conjunctions between words, clauses and phrases.
What is asyndeton?
300
A scheme in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is anaphora?
300
The astronaut who spoke this famous antithesis: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
A trope in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.
What is irony?
300
"I came, I saw, I conquered".
What is asyndeton?
400
The device that is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used.
What is litote?
400
The scheme wherein one word or phrase is repeated at the beginning and another word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is symploce?
400
The fictional character who made anastrophe famous.
Who is Yoda?
400
A trope that compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other.
What is metaphor?
400
"The British Crown has been plagued by scandal."
What is synecdoche?
500
The rhetorical device which is a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole or the whole for a part.
What is synecdoche?
500
The scheme that repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next.
What is anadiplosis?
500
The civil rights activist who commonly used allusion in his speeches.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
500
A trope in which one verb governs several words, or clauses, each in a different sense.