Rhetorical & stylistic analysis

1. Name the device in which a part represents the whole (e.g. “all hands on deck” where “hands” means sailors): Synecdoche or Allusion?

2. Name the rhetorical appeal that persuades through logic, evidence and structured reasoning: Logos or Pathos?

3. Name the device that omits conjunctions between series items to accelerate rhythm (e.g. “reduce, reuse, recycle”): Asyndeton or Polysyndeton?

4. Name the device that reverses grammatical structure in successive clauses in an ABBA pattern (e.g. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country”): Chiasmus or Assonance?

5. Name the rhetorical appeal that stirs the audience’s emotions and empathy: Pathos or Ethos?

6. Name the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound they describe (e.g. “buzz”, “splash”, “crackle”): Onomatopoeia or Litotes?

7. Name the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby non-rhyming words (e.g. “the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”): Assonance or Oxymoron?

8. Name the rhetorical device that repeats a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses (e.g. “We shall study, we shall question, we shall grow”): Anaphora or Hyperbole?

9. Name the device that refers to something by a closely associated attribute or institution (e.g. “The Crown” for the monarchy): Metonymy or Hyperbole?

10. Name the device that repeats conjunctions between every item in a list for cumulative weight (e.g. “lions and tigers and bears”): Polysyndeton or Asyndeton?

11. Name the device that places two contrasting ideas side by side in balanced parallel structure (e.g. “To err is human; to forgive, divine”): Antithesis or Onomatopoeia?

12. Name the brief, indirect reference to a well-known historical, cultural or literary work: Allusion or Oxymoron?