AICE LANG

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of an inicial consonant sound

Ex. BOOM BOOM BOOM

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A brief usually indirect reference to a place, event- real or fictional

Ex: You’re a regular Einstein

Question 3

Analogy

Answer 3

Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases

“Just as a sword is a weapon of a warrior, a pen is a weapon of a writer.”

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.

“Speech is silver but silence is gold”

Question 6

Aphorism

Answer 6

A tersely phased statement of truth or opinion.

“The man who moves small mountains begins by carrying small stones”

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address an absent person or thing

“Twinkle, Twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are, up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky”

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

Ex: M[e]n s[e]ll th[e] w[e]dding b[e]lls

Question 9

Asyndeton

Answer 9

The omission of conjuctions between words/phrases/clauses (opposite of Polysydenton)

“This is the Villan among you who deceived you, who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
(The word “and” is not featured”)

Question 10

Chiasmus

Answer 10

A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with parts reversed.

Ex. “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you”

Question 11

Climax

Answer 11

The high point of a culmination of a series of events.

Ex. “I was walking towards the door that had blood seeping through the opening”

Question 12

Colloquial

Answer 12

Characteristics of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language

Ex. “Go bananas= go crazy”

Question 13

Comparison

Answer 13

A rhetorical strategy in which a writer examines a similarity/differences between two things.

Ex. The Sky color in U.S. and in China

Question 14

Conjunction

Answer 14

The part of a speech (or word) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.

Ex. F= For
A= and
N= No
B= But
O= Or
Y= Yet
S= So

Question 15

Connotation

Answer 15

The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.

Ex. A dove implies peace or gentility

Question 16

Denotation

Answer 16

The direct and dictionary meaning of a word, in comparison to its figurative or associative meaning.

“Ex. “And on a dag we meet to walk in line, and set the wall between us again” -RF
Wall= physical boundary

Question 17

Diction

Answer 17

The choice and use of words in speech or writing.

Question 18

Didactic

Answer 18

Intended or inclined to teach or instruct often excessively.

Ex. “All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others”

Question 19

Epiphora

Answer 19

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.

Ex. “I’m a pepper, he’s a pepper, she’s a pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too? Dr. Pepper!”

Question 20

Ethos

Answer 20

Persuasive appeal on the speaker

Ex. Justin Bieber for Neutrogena

Question 21

Euphemism

Answer 21

Substitution of an offensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

Ex. He is a special child (disabled)

Question 22

Extended Metaphor

Answer 22

Comparison between two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

Ex. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players”

Question 23

Hypophora

Answer 23

A rhetorical term for a strategy in which a speaker or writer raises a question then answers it.

Ex. “ You might wonder why I’m in this position right now”
“I went back in time”

Question 24

Invective

Answer 24

Dirty or abusive language; blame on someone.

Ex. “You are a worthless wimp with no future”

Question 25

Jargon

Answer 25

Specialized language of a professional often meaningless to outsiders.

Ex. “getting on a soapbox”

Question 26

Juxtaposition

Answer 26

Placing dissimilar items together for contrast

Ex. Jumbo Shrimp

Question 27

Meiosis

Answer 27

Understatement or belittle

Ex. “I fear I am not perfect in mind” -WS

Question 28

Metonymy

Answer 28

Word/Phrase is substituted for another with close association

Ex. “Crown” for “Royaltty”

Question 29

Oxymoron

Answer 29

Contradictory terms side by side

Ex. “Open secret”

Question 30

Paradox

Answer 30

Statement that contradict itself

Ex. “Your enemy’s friend is your enemy”

Question 31

Parallelism

Answer 31

Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Ex. “Like father, like son”

Question 32

Prose

Answer 32

Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse. (Both fiction and non-fiction)

Ex. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family happy in its own way”

Question 33

Refutation

Answer 33

Speaker/writer anticipates and counters opposing views.

Ex. “Pro-life or pro-choice”

Question 34

Rhetoric

Answer 34

Study and practice of effective persuasion.

Ex. “All blondes are dumb”

Question 35

Satire

Answer 35

Text or performance that uses Irony, derision or wit to expose or attack human vice.

Ex. “The Daily Show” expresses opinion on politics.

Question 36

Synecdote

Answer 36

General represents the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for general, the general for the specific, or the material from it.

Ex. “Bread”= food or money

Question 37

Syntax

Answer 37

The study of rules that govern the way words combine/ the arrangement of words in a sentence.

Ex. “That night I sat in Ryan’s bed and waited for him to touch me….”