Chapter 2 Terms

Question 1

Old fashioned or outdated choice of words

Answer 1

Archaic diction

Question 2

Repetition of words in reverse order

Answer 2

Antimetabole

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Inversion

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Hortative sentence

Question 6

Sentence used to command or enjoin.

Answer 6

Imperative sentence

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Anaphora

Question 9

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Answer 9

Oxymoron

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Zeugma

Question 12

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Answer 12

Synecdoche

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Antithesis

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Asyndeton

Question 16

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

Answer 16

Juxtaposition

Question 18

Attribution of a lifelike qualify go an inanimate object or an idea

Answer 18

Personification

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Rhetorical question

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Metaphor

Question 22

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Answer 22

Periodic sentence

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Allusion

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Parallelism

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Cumulative sentence

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Alliteration