Chapter 2-Close Reading

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Antimetabole

Answer 3

Repetition of words in reverse order.

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Archaic Diction

Answer 5

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.

Question 7

Cumulative Sentence

Answer 7

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

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 closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Oxymoron

Answer 13

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seems to contradict one another.

Question 14

Parallelism

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Periodic Sentence

Answer 15

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.

Question 16

Personification

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Rhetorical Question

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Synedoche

Answer 18

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole.

Question 19

Zeugma

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Alliteration

Answer 20

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