Chapter 2 Vocab

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same sound

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Opposition or contrast or ideas or words in parallel construction

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Old fashioned or out dated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, causes or words

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Hortative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or call to 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 and differences

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Compares two things without using like or as

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Words that contradict each other

Question 15

Parallelism

Answer 15

Similarity of structure in a pair of 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

Giving objects human characteristics

Question 18

Rhetorical question

Answer 18

Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the 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 in a grammatically similar way that produces different meanings