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Purpose
100
Parallelism
What is the state of being parallel or corresponding in some way?
100
Alliteration
What is scheme is, "Sally sold sea shells down by the sea shore"?
100
Anaphora
What is the scheme used to lend emphasis to a passage by repeating the same phrase over and over again?
200
Antithesis
What is a person or thing directly opposite of someone or something else?
200
Isocolon
What is scheme is, "I came; I saw; I conquered"?
200
Erotema
What is a fancy way of saying 'rhetorical question'?
300
Epiplexis
What is a rhetorical term for asking questions to rebuke or reproach rather than to elicit answers?
300
Ellipsis
What is...?
300
Parenthesis
What is the scheme used to show dialogue?
400
Asyndeton
What is the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence?
400
Zeugma
What is "John and his license expired last week"?
400
Hypophora
What is a figure of speech in which the speaker prepossess a question and then answers said question in order to make a point?
500
Anitmetabole
What is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order?
500
Anadiplosis
What is figure of speech is represented by, "Turn the lights out now / Now, I'll take you by the hand / Hand you another drink / Drink it if you can / Can you spend a little time / Time is slipping away / Away from us, so stay / Stay with me I can make / Make you glad you came"?
500
Chiasmus
What is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point?