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Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

Short, simple narrative of an incident.

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

Writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or idea by presenting reasoned arguments.

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

An extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story.

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

Explanatory notes added to text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

The art of effective or persuasive writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techiques.

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

A word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind.

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity.

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality.

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

The “quality” of a piece of writing in which all he parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme.

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

A short, often witty, statement of a princible or truth about life.

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

The device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 14

Cacophony

Answer 14

Also referred to as Dissonance. Hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose.

Question 15

Connotation-Denotation

Answer 15

Connotation: Any implied meaning to a word or phrase that is not the express definition of it’s words.
Denotation: The exact definition and surface meaning of a word or phrase.

Question 16

Enumeration

Answer 16

A rhetorical device used for listing the details or process of mentioning words or phrases step by step.

Question 17

Analogy

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their contraction, sound, meaning, or meter.

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of a historical, cultural, political, or literary significance.

Question 20

Metonymy

Answer 20

A figure of speech that replaces the name of a person, place, or thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.

Question 21

Anaphora

Answer 21

In writing of speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.

Question 22

Epistrophe

Answer 22

Derived from a Greek word meaning “turning upon”, which indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence. The repetition of words or phrases at the end of each clause or sentence.

Question 23

Asyndeton

Answer 23

Derived from a Greek word meaning “unconnected”. It is the stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between phrases, yet maintain grammatical accuracy.