Key Words, Chapter 14

Question 1

Anthropomorphism

Answer 1

the ascription of human characteristics to God

Question 2

Anthropopathism

Answer 2

the ascription of human emotions to God

Question 3

Antithese

Answer 3

direct contrast, terms set in opposition to each other

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

direct address to imaginary object or person, or to an object or person not present

Question 5

Contiguity

Answer 5

figure of speech based on association, not similarity; in figures of contiguity, there is a logical comparison between the terms of the figure; metonymy and synecdoche are figures of contiguity

Question 6

Epizeuxis or Epanadiplosis

Answer 6

repetition of a significant word for emphasis

Question 7

Euphemism

Answer 7

substitution of a less offensive or explicit term for a stronger term

Question 8

Figure of Speech

Answer 8

any use of language in which two terms are compared or brought into some relationship other than, or in addition to, a literal or logical connection; any use of language in which one term is spoken of in language suggestive of the other term

Question 9

Hypocatastasis

Answer 9

figure of speech in which the comparison is implied by direct naming

Question 10

Image

Answer 10

word picture in which the reader can, as it were, see, taste, touch, smell or hear what is being described

Question 11

Irony

Answer 11

device in which the writer states the opposite of what is intended

Question 12

Litotes

Answer 12

deliberate unerstatement for effect

Question 13

Merism

Answer 13

type of synecdoche in which the whole is suggested by contrasting parts

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

figure of speech in which one term is imaginatively identified with another, or in which one object represents another object or idea

Question 15

metonymy

Answer 15

substitution of one word for another

Question 16

paronomasia

Answer 16

similar-sounding words placed side by side for emphasis

Question 17

Personification (also Prosopopoeia)

Answer 17

type of metaphor in which human characteristics are ascribed to inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human beings

Question 18

Similarity

Answer 18

figure of speech based on comparison apart from any logical connection between the terms; figures of similarity include simile, metaphor, image and symbol

Question 19

Simile

Answer 19

simple comparison, usually linked by like” or “as”

Question 20

Symbol

Answer 20

type of metaphor in which the vehicle, as well as the tenor, is broadly suggestive in itself

Question 21

Synecdoche

Answer 21

figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

Question 22

Tenor

Answer 22

underlying subject in a figure of speech

Question 23

Term

Answer 23

subject of a figure of speech; there are two terms in a figure of speech, the “vehicle” and “tenor”

Question 24

Vehicle

Answer 24

mode in which the tenor is experienced