Rhetorical & stylistic analysis

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Name the device that combines two contradictory terms into a single compressed phrase (e.g. “deafening silence”): Oxymoron or Synecdoche?

6. Name the device consisting of three parallel words, phrases or clauses in succession (e.g. “I came, I saw, I conquered”): Tricolon or Metonymy?

7. Name the device that substitutes a mild or indirect expression for one considered harsh or blunt (e.g. “passed away” for “died”): Euphemism or Paradox?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

11. Name the device that uses deliberate, extreme exaggeration for emphasis rather than literal truth (e.g. “I have told you a million times”): Hyperbole or Litotes?

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