Chapter 2

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Reference to a work of art

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of a phrase at the beginning of successive phrases

Question 3

Antimetabole

Answer 3

Repeating words in reverse order

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

Opposition of ideas or words in a parallel construction

Question 5

Archaic Diction

Answer 5

Outdated choice of words

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases

Question 7

Cumulative Sentence

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

Repetition of beginning sound with several words

Question 9

Hortative Sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that exhorts or calls to action

Question 10

Imperative Sentence

Answer 10

Sentence used to command

Question 11

Inversion

Answer 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Question 12

Juxtaposition

Answer 12

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or difference

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Comparing two things without “like” or “as”

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Words that contradict each other

Question 15

Parallelism

Answer 15

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words

Question 16

Periodic Sentence

Answer 16

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

Giving the lifelike qualities to inanimate objects

Question 18

Rhetorical question

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Synedoche

Answer 19

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

Use of two different words and a grammatically similar way to produce different meanings