Unit 1/ Vocab 2: Rhetoric and Analysis

Question 1

Asyndeton

Answer 1

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words; speeds up the flow of a sentence

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms (jumbo shrimp)

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Juxtaposition

Answer 4

Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast; used for emphasis

Question 5

Diction

Answer 5

The author’s choice of words that create tones, attitude, and style as well as meaning

Question 6

Inversion

Answer 6

The reversal of the normal order of words

Question 7

Polysyndeton

Answer 7

Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

Part as representative of the whole

Question 10

Antithesis

Answer 10

Opposition or contrast of ideas or words; the ideas are balanced by phrase, clause, or paragraphs

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object

Question 12

Imperative sentence

Answer 12

Sentence used to command or enjoin

Question 13

Antimetabole

Answer 13

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 14

Periodic sentence

Answer 14

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

A reference to another work outside of the present work

Question 16

Cumulative sentence

Answer 16

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on

Question 17

Hortative sentence

Answer 17

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

A comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as

Question 19

Extended metaphor

Answer 19

A sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit; developed throughout a piece of writing

Question 20

Parallelism

Answer 20

Similarity in structure and syntax in a series of related words, phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs that develops balance

Question 21

Zeugma

Answer 21

Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings; a type of a pun where one modifies two or more words, but for different meanings