Quiz 1

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

the repetition of a beginning consonant sound in a phrase or a sentence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

a reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more lines or clauses

Question 4

Anastrophe

Answer 4

the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged

Question 5

Anthropomorphism

Answer 5

attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object

Question 6

Aphorism

Answer 6

a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second

Question 9

Colloquialism

Answer 9

the use of informal words or phrases

Question 10

Euphemism

Answer 10

a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

Question 11

Flashback

Answer 11

interruptions inserting past events in order to provide background or context to the current events

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis

Question 13

Litotes

Answer 13

an intentional use of understatement that renders an ironical effect

Question 14

Malapropism

Answer 14

misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different meanings, creating a situation of confusion and amusement

Question 15

Metonymy

Answer 15

replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is merely associated but it is not necessarily physically a part of it

Question 16

Parallelism

Answer 16

using the same pattern of words or similar grammatical structure to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance

Question 17

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 17

attributing of human emotion and actions to nature, a type of personification

Question 18

Portmanteau

Answer 18

two or more words are joined together to coin a new word

Question 19

Simile

Answer 19

a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like and as

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

when the representative thing is actually a part of the larger thing it is representing; uses a part of something to refer to the whole or uses an entire thing to represent a part of it