Vocab Chapter 2

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

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

Question 2

allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

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

Question 4

antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order.

Question 5

antithesis

Answer 5

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

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Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.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 completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.

Question 9

hortative sentence

Answer 9

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

Question 10

imperative sentence

Answer 10

Sentence used to command or enjoin.

Question 11

inversion

Answer 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb- object order).

Question 12

juxtaposition

Answer 12

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize 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 clause is withheld until the end.

Question 17

personification

Answer 17

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.

Question 18

rhetorical question

Answer 18

Figure of speech in the form of 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 produces different, often incongruous, meanings.

Question 21

declarative sentence

Answer 21

A sentence that makes a statement with a period at the end.

Question 22

interrogative sentence

Answer 22

A sentence that asks a question.

Question 23

exclamatory sentence

Answer 23

A sentence that makes a statement with an exclamation point at the end.

Question 24

complex sentence

Answer 24

A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

Question 25

compound sentence

Answer 25

a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.