Syntax Quiz

Question 1

“Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place.”

Answer 1

Repetition

Question 2

“You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.”

Answer 2

Anaphora

Question 3

If the oven is on, turn it off!

Answer 3

Inversion

Question 4

‘I must be cruel, only to be kind’’

Answer 4

Paradox

Question 5

When they arrive, let me know!

Answer 5

Inversion

Question 6

“Like”

Answer 6

Expletive

Question 7

“Young Goodman Brown caught hold of a tree, for support, being ready to sink down on the ground, faint and overburdened with the heavy sickness of his hear.”

Answer 7

Cumulative

Question 8

“I wish I may; I wish I might.”

Answer 8

Anaphora

Question 9

“Where there is smoke, there is fire,”

Answer 9

Parallelism

Question 10

This is the beginning of the end.

Answer 10

Paradox

Question 11

“So many places, so little time.”

Answer 11

Anaphora

Question 12

“No pain, no gain,”

Answer 12

Parallelism

Question 13

If I know one thing, it’s that I know nothing.

Answer 13

Paradox

Question 14

I like everything about him: his smile, his laugh, his sense of humor.

Answer 14

Enumeration

Question 15

“In for a penny, in for a pound,”

Answer 15

Parallelism

Question 16

“A colonial Mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house,”

Answer 16

Enumeration

Question 17

“He had a very pleasant journey, both in respect to the weather and the solitude of the track-for, during miles of the way, no carriages passed him, nor did any person overtake him till he reached the centre of the populous village.”

Answer 17

Cumulative

Question 18

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”

Answer 18

Repetition

Question 19

“Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”

Answer 19

Enumeration

Question 20

Save money by spending it.

Answer 20

Paradox

Question 21

“He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.”

Answer 21

Cumulative

Question 22

“I would say”

Answer 22

Expletive

Question 23

At the store, I bought salt, pepper, flour, sugar, baking soda, and cinnamon.

Answer 23

Enumeration

Question 24

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

Answer 24

Anaphora

Question 25

I went to the mall yesterday, bought shirts and bags, and ate at the newly-opened restaurant.

Answer 25

Cumulative

Question 26

“Hatred was spreading everywhere, blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.”

Answer 26

Repetition

Question 27

“As I parted the grassy curtain, I found myself nose to nose with an angry hippo.”

Answer 27

Periodic

Question 28

“If I may”

Answer 28

Expletive

Question 29

In spite of the hail of bullets, the children smiled.

Answer 29

Periodic

Question 30

“In the intervals of conversation, the deep and ominous tones of the bell, coming, as it were, out of the sky, told the hour without the trouble of counting the strokes.”

Answer 30

Periodic

Question 31

“It takes one to know one”

Answer 31

Parallelism

Question 32

“I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”

Answer 32

Repetition

Question 33

“I would say a haunted house”

Answer 33

Expletive

Question 34

Never again will you do that.

Answer 34

Inversion

Question 35

A fire, please call 911!

Answer 35

Inversion

Question 36

In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued.

Answer 36

Periodic