Chapter 2: Close Reading

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a person, event, or place, 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 lines

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

repetition of words in reverse order.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Archaic dictation

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Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.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

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Hortative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreaties, implores, or calls for action.

Question 10

Imperative sentence

Answer 10

Sentence used to command or enjoin

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 differences.

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.

Question 15

Parallelism

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Periodic sentence

Answer 16

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

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

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

Synecdoche

Answer 19

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

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