Week 8

Question 1

Chiasmus

Answer 1

A pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. Ideas presented in an ABBA pattern.

Question 2

Circumlocution

Answer 2

Evasive or indirect language achieved by wordiness. Talking in circles.

Question 3

Didactic (adj.)

Answer 3

Designed or intended to teach.

Question 4

Palindrome

Answer 4

Writing that reads the same form left to right and from right to left.

Question 5

Refrain

Answer 5

A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines normally at the same fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form.

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

The patterning of vowel sounds without regards to consonants. Differs from rhyme in that rhyme typically involves vowel & consonant sounds.

Question 7

Dramatic Irony

Answer 7

Audience knows more about a character’s situation than the character does.

Question 8

Ellipsis

Answer 8

The omission of 1 or more words that, while essential to the grammatical structure, are easily supplied.

Question 9

Epigraph

Answer 9

A quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter, or poem.

Question 10

Antithesis

Answer 10

A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is the balancing of one term against another.