Semester 2

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

Exaggeration

Question 2

Understatement

Answer 2

Writer intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is

Question 3

Antithesis

Answer 3

Figure of balance in which 2 contrasting ideas are juxtaposed

Question 4

Hypophora

Answer 4

(Figure of reasoning) 1 or more questions is/are asked and then answered (often at length)

Question 5

Amplification

Answer 5

Extension of phrase/sentence

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects

Question 7

Parataxis

Answer 7

Phrases/clauses are placed one after another independently without the use of coordinating/subordinating conjunctions

Question 8

Rhetorical question

Answer 8

Question not meant to be answered

Question 9

Procatelpsis

Answer 9

Speaker raises objection to own argument and immediately answers it

Question 10

Distinctio

Answer 10

Introduction to words meaning followed by furthering of word’s meaning

Question 11

Simile

Answer 11

Comparison with the use of like or as

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Comparison of two things without use of like or as

Question 13

Analogy

Answer 13

Comparison between 2 different things OR relationship between them

Question 14

Asyndeton

Answer 14

Omitting conjunctions

Question 15

Polysyndeton

Answer 15

Using multiple conjunctions

Question 16

Synecdoche

Answer 16

Allowing a part for the whole (all hands on deck)

Question 17

Metonymy

Answer 17

Use of name of object, person, or idea to represent something (White House)

Question 18

Hyperbaton

Answer 18

Inversion in the arrangement of common words (winter kept us warm, covering)

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

Direct/indirect reference to something commonly known (Cold War)

Question 20

Eponym

Answer 20

Refers to person/thing after which something else is named (Graham crackers-Sylvester Graham)

Question 21

Sententia

Answer 21

Brace moral saying (War is Hell)

Question 22

Exemplum

Answer 22

Short tale-example

Question 23

Climax

Answer 23

High point of story or sentence

Question 24

Parallelism

Answer 24

Arranging words, phrases, clauses or larger structures side by side in similar form

Question 25

Chiasmus

Answer 25

Clauses balanced against each other by reversal of their structures (AB,BA)

Question 26

Anadiplosis

Answer 26

Repetition of word or words-second clause starts with same word of previous clause ended with

Question 27

Conduplicatio

Answer 27

Duplicating a word

Question 28

Metabasis

Answer 28

Brief statement of what has been said and what will follow

Question 29

Parenthesis

Answer 29

Added information

Question 30

Apostrophe

Answer 30

Addresses imaginary/not present character/thing

Question 31

Enumeratio

Answer 31

Amplification-subject is divided into parts, details with listing causes, effects, probs etc.

Question 32

Antanagoge

Answer 32

Counter-allegation

Question 33

Epithet

Answer 33

Application of word/phrase to a person to describe said person’s qualities/attributes

Question 34

Zuegma

Answer 34

When word is used in two different ways (farmers grew potatoes and bored)

Question 35

Aporia

Answer 35

Expression of doubt (to be or not to be…)

Question 36

Anaphora

Answer 36

Repetition of beginning of phrases

Question 37

Epistrophe

Answer 37

Repetition at end of phrases

Question 38

Symploce

Answer 38

Combination of anaphora and epistrophe

Question 39

Litotes

Answer 39

Figure of thought in which a point is affirmed negating the opposite (not bad)