Week 1

Question 1

Anachronism

Answer 1

assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence.

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

the same expression (word/words) is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines.

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

speaker addresses a dead (or absent) person or an abstraction or inaminate object – provides opportunity to think aloud.

Question 4

Asyndeton

Answer 4

omission of connecting words in a list.

Question 5

Litotes

Answer 5

type of irony or understatement where an idea is expressed by negating the opposite.

Question 6

Metonymy

Answer 6

type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted.

Question 7

Polysyndeton

Answer 7

repeated use of conjunctions to link together a succession of words, clauses, or sentences.

Question 8

Satire

Answer 8

mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions or societies to ridicule and scorn.

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

type of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole.

Question 10

Synesthesia

Answer 10

describing one kind of sensation in terms of another.