Style Term

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Seer sucker sailor suit

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to another work of literature, person or event

Achilles heel refers to the character in Illiad’s weakness.

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of the same word or phrase, at the beginning of a sentence, consecutively.
Let us live. Let us laugh. Let us love.

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in a reverse order

You were there for me, now I will be there for you.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Balancing strongly contrasted ideas with grammatical structure
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Old fashioned or outdated words

Thine, hither, harken

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Commas used without a conjunction to separate a series of words.
I came, I saw, I conquered.

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

The main idea is at the beginning and is then elaborated upon.
Radiators put out a lot of heat, too much, in fact, and old fashioned smells and sounds came with it.

Question 9

Diction

Answer 9

Word choice

Biggish, chunky, perfunctorily

Question 10

Hortative Sentence

Answer 10

Sentence that calls to action

Let us build a better world

Question 11

Imperative sentence

Answer 11

Sentence that request or demands

We must join together to win.

Question 12

Inversion

Answer 12

Reversal of the normal word order

Brave you are

Question 13

Juxtaposition

Answer 13

Two things placed together to create contrast and emphasis.

Beautifully hideous life

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

Figure of speech comparing two different things.

The world is a stage and we are merely players

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

A brief phrase that contains two opposing words next to each other.
Jumbo shrimp

Question 16

Parallelism

Answer 16

Repetition of same syntactical structure.

After school I will be eating, I will be sleeping, and I will be studying.

Question 17

Periodic sentence

Answer 17

The main point is at the end of the sentence

Because we were late and slow getting ready we are running to school.

Question 18

Personification

Answer 18

Giving human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects.
The wind whispered its story.

Question 19

Rhetorical Question

Answer 19

A question asked for effect and not requiring an answer

Sure, why not?

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

Using one art of an object to refer to the entire thing.
Car as wheels
Businessman as a suit

Question 21

Syntax

Answer 21

Grammar rule that are used to build sentences

We ate fish for dinner vs for dinner we ate fish

Question 22

Zeugma

Answer 22

Using a verb/adjective to refer to two different meanings/things
I grew vegetables and tired.
The cold weather reminded me of our first date.