Literary Tropes And Schemes

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the as, sound beginning several words in sequence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Old fashioned or outdated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or lines

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Hortative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action

Question 10

Imperative sentence

Answer 10

Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat

Question 11

Inversion

Answer 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence variant of the subject verb object order

Question 12

Juxtaposition

Answer 12

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

Using a feature to represent the whole

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 16

Parallelism

Answer 16

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 17

Periodic sentence

Answer 17

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 18

Personification

Answer 18

Attribution of lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea

Question 19

Rhetorical question

Answer 19

Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

Using two different words in as grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings