Rhetorical & stylistic analysis

1. 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?

2. Name the device that repeats a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses (e.g. “of the people, by the people, for the people”): Epistrophe or Anaphora?

3. 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?

4. Name the rhetorical appeal that establishes the speaker’s credibility, character and authority: Ethos or Pathos?

5. Name the repetition of initial consonant sounds across nearby words (e.g. “wild winds whipped the waves”): Alliteration or Caesura?

6. Name the device in which a speaker anticipates and answers a potential counter-argument in advance: Prolepsis (anticipation) or Hyperbole?

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

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

9. Name a statement that appears self-contradictory on the surface yet reveals a deeper truth (e.g. “Less is more”): Paradox or Cliché?

10. Name the device that affirms a point by negating its opposite (e.g. “no small achievement” to mean a great achievement): Litotes or Chiasmus?

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