English Terms 3

Question 0

Asyndeton

Answer 0

Omission of the conjunctions
“A scarlet racing car, a tiny rakish car which carried about it the atmosphere of innumerable roadhouse, of totsies gathered around swimming pools, of furtive encounters in by-lanes off the Great North Road…”

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of sounds,especially initial consonant sounds

“…a steady seething sound coming from her electric fan”

Question 2

Polysyndeton

Answer 2

Repetition of conjunctions for a rhetorical effect

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure to grasp your one necessity and not let it go…”

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains”

Question 4

Consonance

Answer 4

Repetition of consonant sounds within words
“…gutting the living weasel with his talons before his breast, bending his beak,cleaning the beautiful airborne bones?”

Question 5

Dissonance

Answer 5

The arangement of harsh, cacophonous sounds for a particular effect
“Thy black, cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel/Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, grating,shutting at thy sides…”

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

Words that have meaning similar to their sound

“The moon of doves in immemorial elms,/And murmuring of innumerable bees…”