AP Test

Question 0

Opposite of a hyperbole representing in a week or restrained way

Answer 0

Understatement

Question 1

Exaggerated use for emphasis not understood literally

Answer 1

Hyperbole

Question 2

Understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of it’s contrary as in not bad at all

Kind of like a double negative

Answer 2

Litotes

Question 3

Placing sentence or one of its parts against another

Answer 3

Antithesis

Question 4

Strategy in which the author asks a question then immediately answers

Answer 4

Hypophora

Question 5

The question asked solely to produce an effect or make an assertion and not elicit a reply

Answer 5

Rhetorical question

Question 6

The speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it by doing so helps to strengthen his argument by dealing with possible counter arguments

Answer 6

Procatalepsis

Question 7

Explicit references to various meanings of a word usually for purpose of removing ambiguities

Answer 7

Distinctio

Question 8

Figures speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison maybe based

Answer 9

Analogy

Question 10

A passing or casual reference; incidental mention of something either directly or by implication

Answer 10

Allusion

Question 11

A word based on or derived from a person’s name

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Eponym

Question 12

Is short quick saying embodying a general truth or astute observation wisdom in well phrased sentences

Answer 12

Sententia

Question 13

Setting an example; using an illustrative story either true or fictional

Answer 13

Exemplum

Question 14

A figure consisting of a series of related ideas arranged so that each surpass the proceeding in force or intensity

Answer 14

Climax

Question 15

The balance of two or more similar words phrases clauses

Answer 15

Parallelism

Question 16

A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases

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Chiasmus

Question 17

Repetition of the first part of a clause or sentence of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning

Answer 17

Anadiplosis

Question 18

Same as anadiplosis except it takes an important word from anywhere in the sentence

Answer 18

Conduplicatio

Question 19

Device used to sum up a body of work that has come before, so that you can move on to a new point; a transition from one subject to another

Answer 19

Metabasis

Question 20

Take a sentence and interrupt with something either commas dashes or parentheses

Answer 20

Parenthesis

Question 21

Breaking out of the flow of the writing to directly address a person or personified object

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Apostrophe

Question 22

The listing or detailing of the parts of something

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Enumeratio

Question 23

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a countercharge

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Antanagoge

Question 24

A characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like

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Epithet

Question 25

The omission of conjunctions in a list

Answer 25

Asyndeton

Question 26

Multiple conjunctions in a list

Answer 26

Polysyndeton

Question 27

Use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is to each but in a different way

Answer 27

Zeugma

Question 28

Part is used for whole or whole for part

Answer 28

Synecdoche

Question 29

Metaphor – thing chosen for metaphorical image is closely associated with the subject with which it is compared

Answer 29

Metonymy

Question 30

Include several rhetorical devices involving departure from normal word order for emphasis

Answer 30

Hyperbaton