Style Elements

Question 1

Antithesis

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Antimetabole

Answer 5

Reptile of words on reverse order

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Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words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 words

Question 8

Cumulative Sentence

Answer 8

Sentence that complements the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and add ons

Question 9

Hortative Sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreat am implores, or calls to action

Question 10

Imperative sentence

Answer 10

Direct command

Question 11

Inversion

Answer 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Question 12

Juxtaposition

Answer 12

Placement of two things closely together to emphasis similarities or differences

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 15

Parallelism

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Periodic Sentence

Answer 16

Sentence whose main clauses withheld until the end

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

Giving an inanimate object characteristics

Question 18

Rhetorical Question

Answer 18

Figure of speech in the firm I’d a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Question 19

Synedoche

Answer 19

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produce, often differing, meanings.