More Literary Terms

Question 1

Back formation

Answer 1

creation of one word from another by clipping off a suffix

Question 2

Example of back formation

Answer 2

escalate (escalator), respirate (respirator), burgle (burglar), laze (lazy)

Question 3

Apheresis

Answer 3

removal of a letter or syllable at the beginning of the word

Question 4

Examples of apheresis

Answer 4

count (account), squire (esquire), most (almost)

Question 5

Metathesis

Answer 5

transposition of two letters or sounds in a word

Question 6

Examples of metathesis

Answer 6

frost (forst), gaers (grass), TURB- (trub), where (hwar), whither (hwider)