1st Set Of rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Ad hominem

Answer 1

A Logical fallacy

Question 2

Adage

Answer 2

Maxim or Aphorism

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

A Parable, analogy. Example, the book: Animal Farm by George Orwell

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words on lines in a poem or sentence. (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)

Question 5

Allusion

Answer 5

A reference to a person, place, or mythological object (person) meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea.

Question 6

Anaphora

Answer 6

Repetition of the same words.

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

Contrast of the Ideas
Ex. War and Peace. Joy and sorrow. Love and Hate.

Question 8

Aphorism

Answer 8

Adage, maxim

Question 9

Apostrophe

Answer 9

A strategy that adresses a person or personified thing not present.

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

A list structure

Question 11

Assonance

Answer 11

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.

Question 12

Bathos

Answer 12

Insincere or overdone sentimentality, fake sweetness of emotion.

Question 13

Begging the Question

Answer 13

Indirect answer to the question

Question 14

Bombast

Answer 14

Inflated, pretentious, language . Overuse, of academic or pretentious language.

Question 15

Chiasmus

Answer 15

A figure of speech where the syntax structure uses parallel clauses, but in the second clause, the sequence is reverse.
“When the going get tough, the tough get going.”

Question 16

Chronos

Answer 16

A persuasive appeal that ries o convince us of an idea based upon the period of time in which it is relevant.
Example: jingle bell chocolate kiss commercials.