2 Literary Terms Ex 1 Flashcards
1
Q
“You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without getting a job”
A
Paradox
2
Q
Cinderella swept the floor, dusted the mantle, and beat the rugs.
A
Parallelism
3
Q
I came, I saw, I conquered.
A
Anaphora
4
Q
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A
Chiasmus
5
Q
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
A
Antithesis
6
Q
The butler killed the lights, then the mistress.
A
Zeugma
7
Q
Old Ralphie in “A Christmas Story”.
A
Persona
8
Q
I was stirred by his cooking lesson.
A
Pun
9
Q
A lawyer’s closing arguments
A
Rhetoric
10
Q
“They’re really on top of things” to describe a group of dysfunctional people.
A
Sarcasm
11
Q
Huckleberry Fin or political cartoons
A
Satire
12
Q
The dog ran across the street.
A
Sentence
