Ch 2 Terms

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a famous person, event, or place(real or fictional) or to a work of art

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in parallel construction.

Question 6

Archaic Diction

Answer 6

Old fashioned or outdated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 8

Hortative Sentence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Imperative Sentence

Answer 9

Sentence used to command or enjoin

Question 10

Inversion

Answer 10

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

Question 11

Juxtaposition

Answer 11

Placement of two things closest together to emphasize similarities or differences

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Figure of speech that compares two, unlike things without using like or as

Question 14

Parallelism

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Rhetorical Question

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Synecdoche

Answer 17

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 18

Zeugma

Answer 18

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