RHETORIC

Question 1

Hyperbole..

Answer 1

Exaggeration for effect.

Question 2

Litotes..

Answer 2

Understatement for effect.

Question 3

Diminutio..

Answer 3

Self depreciation to win sympathy. ‘My opinion won’t count for much..’

Question 4

‘Us and them’ technique..

Answer 4

“We shall..”

Question 5

Synthetic personalisation..

Answer 5

Personally addressing audience.

Question 6

Exemplum..

Answer 6

Short story or reference used to illustrate a point.

Question 7

Rhetorical question..

Answer 7

A question which requires no answer.

Question 8

Amplificato..

Answer 8

Elaborating an idea by saying it several times in different ways.

Question 9

Anaphora..

Answer 9

Repetition of the beginning of a sentence.

Question 10

Epiphora..

Answer 10

Repetition of the end of a sentence.

Question 11

Tricolon..

Answer 11

“education, education, education”

Question 12

Metaphor..

Answer 12

Something described as something that couldn’t actually be possible?

Question 13

Personification..

Answer 13

Described as having human characteristics.

Question 14

Similie..

Answer 14

something is ‘as’ something ‘as’ something..?