Page 78 Definitions

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same sound beginning several wordsq

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a person, even, or place

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Opposition of ideas in a parallel construction

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Outdated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

Sentence that completes main idea at the beginning and then builds and adds on

Question 9

Hortative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence that calls to action

Question 10

Imperative sentence

Answer 10

Sentence used to command

Question 11

Inversion

Answer 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence

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 series of relative words or phrases

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

Question 18

Rhetorical question

Answer 18

Figure of speech in form of question posed for rhetorical effect

Question 19

Synecdoche

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 meanings