Literary Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same consonant sound

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses.

Question 3

Anastrophe

Answer 3

Grammatical misorder of things (terra in)

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

Addressing a person who is not there (O deus)

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

Lack of connective words like et and que

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

ABBA

Question 7

Ellipsis

Answer 7

Omission of words

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

Continuation of a sense unit into a second line

Question 9

Hendiadys

Answer 9

The use of two nouns and a conjunction instead of an adjective and a noun

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

Exaggeration for rhetorical effect

Question 11

Hysteron Proteron

Answer 11

A reversal of the usual order of events (He put on his shoes and socks)

Question 12

Litotes

Answer 12

Saying something by denying it’s opposite (She’s not unpleasant)

Question 13

Metonymy

Answer 13

The substitution of one word for another that it suggests

Question 14

Onomatopoiea

Answer 14

A word that sounds like it’s meaning (pipiabat = was chirping)

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

Giving human attributes to something that is non-human

Question 16

Polysyndeton

Answer 16

The use of more connectives than necessary

Question 17

Praeteritio

Answer 17

Saying that you’re not going to mention something…. and therefore mentioning it indirectly.

Question 18

Simile

Answer 18

A comparison using like or as (vellut, similis, ut, aliter)

Question 19

Synchysis

Answer 19

ABAB

Question 20

Synechdoche

Answer 20

A part stands for the whole (Hot wheels = nice car)

Question 21

Tricolon Crescens

Answer 21

Three parallel elements growing in importance

Question 22

Zeugma

Answer 22

The use of one verb with two nouns (Elmo was covered in a cloak and mystery)