Ch 2

Question 1

Reference to a person, place, event, or work

Answer 1

Allusion

Question 2

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases

Answer 2

Anaphora

Question 3

Repetition of words in reverse order

Answer 3

Antimetabole

Question 4

Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction

Answer 4

Antithesis

Question 5

Old fashioned or outdated use of words

Answer 5

Archaic diction

Question 6

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases or words

Answer 6

Asyndeton

Question 7

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on

Answer 7

Cumulative sentence

Question 8

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action

Answer 8

Hortative sentence

Question 9

Sentence used to command or enjoin

Answer 9

Imperative sentence

Question 10

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Answer 10

Inversion

Question 11

Placement of two things places closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

Answer 11

Juxtaposition

Question 12

Compares two things without using like or as

Answer 12

Metaphor

Question 13

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Answer 13

Oxymoron

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Parallelism

Question 15

Sentence who’s main clause is withheld till the end

Answer 15

Periodic sentence

Question 16

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea

Answer 16

Personification

Question 17

Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Answer 17

Rhetorical question

Question 18

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Answer 18

Synedoche

Question 19

Use of two words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings

Answer 19

Zeugma

Question 20

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sentence

Answer 20

Alliteration