Rhetorical Devices (3)

Question 0

Litotes

Answer 0

figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
“My day was not bad.”

Question 1

Jargon

Answer 1

a specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, meaningless to outsiders
“Walk three steps down stage.”

Question 2

Loose sentence

Answer 2

sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses
“I finally arrived in the States after enduring three butt-numbing plane flights and tear-inducing boredom.”

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
“All the world’s a stage.”

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
“The White House will be addressing the problem.”

Question 5

Mood

Answer 5

(1) The quality of a verb that conveys the writer’s attitude toward a subject
(2) The emotion evoked by a text.
“Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering.”

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

formation or use of word that imitates the sounds associated with the action or subject
“Bang bang, goes the gun.”

Question 7

Oxymoron

Answer 7

figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
“jumbo shrimp”

Question 8

Paradox

Answer 8

a statement that appears to contradict itself

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

Question 9

Periodic sentence

Answer 9

a long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax in which the sense is not completed until the final word.
“Despite heavy winds and impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely.”

Question 10

Parallelism

Answer 10

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses
“They are laughing at me, not with me.”