Vocab 2

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Reference to one thing as another, implying a comparison.

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

Explicit comparison of one thing to another.

Question 3

Synecdoche

Answer 3

A whole is represented by naming one of its parts.

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes.

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities.

Question 6

Antanaclasis

Answer 6

Repetition of a word in two different senses.

Question 7

Paronomasia

Answer 7

Using words that sound alike but that differ in meaning (punning).

Question 8

Syllepsis

Answer 8

Using a word differently in relation to two or more words that it modifies or governs (sometimes called zeugma).

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

Use of words whose sound correspond with their semantic value.

Question 10

Anthimeria

Answer 10

Substitution of one part of speech for another.

Question 11

Periphrasis

Answer 11

Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name.

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

Use of exaggerated terms for emphasis or effect.

Question 13

Auxesis

Answer 13

Reference to something with a name disproportionately greater than its nature (a kind of hyberbole).

Question 14

Litotes

Answer 14

Understatement used deliberately.

Question 15

Meiosis

Answer 15

Reference to something with a name disproportionately lesser than its nature (a kind of litotes).

Question 16

Rhetorical Question

Answer 16

Asking a question for a purpose other than obtaining the information requested.

Question 17

Irony

Answer 17

Using language in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite of what the terms used denote (often by exaggeration).

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. A compressed paradox.

Question 19

Paradox

Answer 19

An apparently contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth.

Question 20

Scheme

Answer 20

An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Question 21

Parallelism

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Isocolon

Answer 22

A series of similarly structured elements having the same length.

Question 23

Tricolon

Answer 23

Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together.

Question 24

Antithesis

Answer 24

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas (often in parallel structure).

Question 25

Climax

Answer 25

Generally, the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure.

Question 26

Anastrophe

Answer 26

Inversion of natural word order.

Question 27

Parenthesis

Answer 27

Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

Question 28

Apposition

Answer 28

Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory element.

Question 29

Ellipsis

Answer 29

Omission of a word or words readily implied by context.

Question 30

Asyndeton

Answer 30

Omission of conjunctions between a series of clauses.

Question 31

Brachylogia

Answer 31

Omission of conjunctions between a series of words.

Question 32

Polysyndeton

Answer 32

Opposite of asyndeton, a superabundance of conjunctions

Question 33

Alliteration

Answer 33

Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

Question 34

Assonance

Answer 34

Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

Question 35

Polyptoton

Answer 35

Repetition of words derived from the same root.

Question 36

Antanaclasis

Answer 36

Repetition of a word in two different senses.

Question 37

Anaphora

Answer 37

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

Question 38

Epistrophe

Answer 38

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.

Question 39

Epanalepsis

Answer 39

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.

Question 40

Anadiplosis

Answer 40

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

Question 41

Climax

Answer 41

Repetition of the scheme anadiplosis at least three times, with the elements arranged in an order of increasing importance.

Question 42

Antimetabole

Answer 42

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. (Sometimes mistaken as chiasmus)

Question 43

Chiasmus

Answer 43

Repetition of grammatical structures in reverse order in successive phrases or clauses (not to be mistaken with antimetabole).

Question 44

Trope

Answer 44

An artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word.