Statistics for Milton's Favourite Poetic Devices

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Addressing of a personified thing rhetorically	Apostrophe	83%
Rhetorical use of similar-sounding words for effect	Agnomination	67%
The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing of a subject	Paralipsis	67%
Contrast by parallelism in reverse order	Chiasmus	50%
Repetition of a word or phrase	Palillogy	50%
Rhetorical device of condemning through faint praise	Diasyrm	33%
Intentional ambiguousness	Dilogy	33%
Partial admission of opponent’s argument to strengthen one’s final argument	Paromologia	33%
Rhetorical device of repeating conjunctions for emphasis	Polysyndeton	33%
Repeating last word of clause at beginning of next clause	Anadiplosis	17%
Reversing or inverting word order as rhetorical device	Anastrophe	17%
Turning of opponent’s own argument against them	Antistrophon	17%
Expression characterised by conciseness and elegance	Atticism	17%
Rhetorical expression of uncertainty of which of two options to adopt	Diaporesis	17%
Plain interpretation of a thing	Ecphrasis	17%
Persuasion through stylized but severe criticism of opponent	Epiplexis	17%
Rhetorical questioning	Erostesis	17%
Much talk with little to say; redundancy; pleonasm	Macrology	17%
Description of a thing by its qualities rather than its proper name	Pronomination	17%