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Devices of Repetition
Devices of Sound
Rhetorical Devices
Figures of Speech
Examples
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The exact or approximate duplication of any element of language, such as a word, phrase, sentence, or structure.
What is repetition?
100
Repetition of vowel sounds in successive words.
What is assonance?
100
Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling.
What is rhetorical appeal?
100
Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
100
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
200
A phrase that is repeated throughout a work.
What is refrain?
200
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines
What is rhyme?
200
A sentence of group of sentences that directly opposes or states the complete opposite of a given opinion.
What is antithesis?
200
A figure of speech in which a speaker answers his own otherwise rhetorical question.
What is hypophora?
200
They fought like cats and dogs.
What is simile?
300
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
What is anaphora?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
What is irony?
300
A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms.
What is oxymoron?
300
Saying between jobs instead of unemployed.
What is euphemism?
400
Repetition using examples to prove a point.
What is enumeratio?
400
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The absence of conjunctions when separating a series of words or clauses.
What is asyndeton?
400
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
400
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Socrates is mortal.
What is syllogism?
500
Technique in which a writer emphasizes an idea by repeating it rapidly using slightly different words that have the same or very similar meaning.
What is scesis onomaton?
500
The purposeful use of harsh or discordant sounds to create an unsettling, unpleasant, or rough effect.
What is cacophony.
500
A type of metaphor in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
What is metonymy?
500
A literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form.
What is chiasmus?
500
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
What is false dichotomy?