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Question 1

adage

Answer 1

a saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language

Question 2

Ad Hominem argument

Answer 2

appeals to emotion and prejudice rather than reason or logic; personal attack on ones character

Question 3

allegory

Answer 3

a piece of art or literature in which people, things, or happenings have hidden or symbolic meanings

Question 4

alliteration

Answer 4

occurs when a series of words in a row have the same consonant sound

Question 5

allusion

Answer 5

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person or something that happened

Question 6

anadiplosis

Answer 6

the repetition of a word or words is successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of a previous clause

Question 7

ambiguity

Answer 7

a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning

Question 8

analogy

Answer 8

a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

Question 9

anaphora

Answer 9

the deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect

Question 10

anecdote

Answer 10

a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers listen and laugh or ponder

Question 11

antecedent

Answer 11

the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers

Question 12

antithesis

Answer 12

a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

Question 13

aphorism

Answer 13

a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. Often applied to philosophical, moral, and literary principles

Question 14

apostrophe

Answer 14

a figure of speech in which a person, thing, or abstract quality is addressed as if present

Question 15

appositive

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a noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns placed next to another word or phrase to identify or rename it

Question 16

asyndeton

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the act of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list, it gives a more extemporaneous effect and suggest the list maybe incomplete

Question 17

bathos

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when a writer or a poet falls into a inconsequential and absurd metaphors, descriptions or ideas in an effort to be increasingly emotional or passionate

Question 18

chiasmus

Answer 18

figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second

Question 19

cliche

Answer 19

refers to an expression that has been overused to extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty. May also refer to actions or events which are predictable because of some previous events

Question 20

colloquial/colloquialism

Answer 20

the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing