List #6

Question 0

epanalepsis

Answer 0

device of repetition in which the same expression(single word or phrase)is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause or sentence.
“common sense is not so common”

Question 1

allegory

Answer 1

a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
“animal farm, the inferno, theirs of the flies”

Question 2

litotes

Answer 2

a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form.
“the wearers of petticoat and farthingale… stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng…”

Question 3

telegraphic sentence

Answer 3

a sentence shorter than five words in length

“I went quickly”

Question 4

hortatory sentence

Answer 4

a statement urging other to join in some action-similar to 1st person imperative- commanding oneself and one’s associates to join in some action
“let us begin anew…” “let both sides explore what problems untie us.”