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A rhetorical device by which a series of sentences, clauses, or phrases are arranged in order of increasing intensity.
What is Climax?
100
Personification
What is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. Or, the person or thing embodying a quality or the like.
100
The trees danced in the wind.
What is personification?
100
Antithesis
What is "because the chocolate was so bitter-sweet she couldn't decide if she liked it or not."
100
"I looked across the room at the confident expression on the genius' face." is an example of metonymy.
What is False. If it had said "... on the brain's face..." then it would be metonymy.
200
The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.
What is Antithesis?
200
Synecdoche
What is a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a part.
200
"All hands on deck" representing everybody working or "the good book" representing the bible.
What is Synecdoche?
200
Climax
What is "Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God."
200
“Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave” is an example of Zeugma.
What is True.
300
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way.
What is Zeugma?
300
Hypallage
What is a figure of speech in which the natural relations of two words in a statement are interchanged.
300
The use of the word “ear” to refer to paying attention.
What is Metonymy?
300
Hypallage
What is "Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers."
300
"I was restless throughout the night." is an example of hypallage.
What is False. If it said "It was a restless night." it would be hypallage because the adjective would be applying to the wrong word, a night can not be restless.
400
A rhetorical device by which two nouns joined by a conjunction (usually and) are used instead of a noun and a modifier.
What is Hendiadys?
400
Zeugma
What is a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each.
400
The wolf was huffing and puffing.
What is Hendiadys?
400
Zeugma
What is "We wage war and peace."
400
"The distinction and presence of the dignitary moved his audience." is an example of Chiasmus.
What is False. That is an example of hendiadys, to switch it up into chiasmus you could say "It was good for the dignitary to be distinct in his presence, instead of present in his distinctiveness."
500
The substitution of a word referring to an attribute for the thing that is meant.
What is Metonymy?
500
Chiasmus
What is the reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases.
500
Love the life you live, live the life you love. — Bob Marley
What is Chiasmus?
500
Synecdoche
What is "All hands on deck."
500
"What a piece of work is man! in action how like an angel! how noble in reason! in apprehension how like a god! how infinite in faculties! in form and motion how expressive and admirable" is an example of climax.
What is False. In order to be the proper use of climax the phrases much be ordered in a way that would increase in intensity overtime. the correct way would be, "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and motion how expressive and admirable! in apprehension how like a god!