Chapter 2 Vocab

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repitition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sentence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Old-fashioned ir outdated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunction beytween coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

Sentence that completes he 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 calls 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 close 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 witheld 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

Synedoche

Answer 19

Figure of speech that uses two parts to represent a whole

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

Uses two different words in a gramatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings