Lesser Used Devices

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Repetition at the Beginning of successive phrases or clauses

Question 2

Antithesis

Answer 2

A rhetorical device were two contrasting ideas are directly compared in speech

Question 3

Aphorism

Answer 3

A short statement

Question 4

Colloquialism

Answer 4

Regional statement not high English that drifts into dialect/slang

Question 5

Didactic

Answer 5

To excessive extent overly moral lessons

Question 6

Euphemism

Answer 6

A substitution of nice words instead of a word that might offend

Question 7

Homily

Answer 7

Sermon

Question 8

Inductive reasoning

Answer 8

Where an argument is derived from detailed facts

Question 9

Invective

Answer 9

Very harsh language

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with the word for the word itself

Question 11

Syllogism

Answer 11

Deductive reasoning where a conclusion is derived from premises

Question 12

Synecdoche

Answer 12

A figure speech were a part of an object is used to refer to the entire object

Question 13

Anadiplosis

Answer 13

Ending a phrase or clause with the word that begins the next phrase or clause