Epistrophe

Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence: "For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best."- John F. Kennedy

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• hyperbole

• apposition

Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence: Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• apposition

• antithesis

means: repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• anthimeria

• apposition

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

• apposition

• epistrophe

Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a sentence, lines, or clauses (example: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.)

• metaphor

• anaphora

• imagery

• epistrophe

What is the term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

• epistrophe

What is epistrophe?

• A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life

• The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

• The same expression repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences

• Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe

What is the repetition at the end of a line? Example "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil."

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• epistrophe

• anaphora

The repetition of word or phrase at End of sentences or paragraphs.

• Apostrophe

• Ethos

• Alliterative Couplet

• Epistrophe

Repeating words at the clauses' ends

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton