English 3 Vocab-ch 2

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Antimetabole

Answer 3

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Archaic diction

Answer 5

Old fashioned or outdated word choice

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 7

Cumulative sentence

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Hortative sentence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Imperative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence used to command or enjoin

Question 10

Inversion

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Juxtaposition

Answer 11

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as

Question 13

Oxymoron

Answer 13

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 14

Parallelism

Answer 14

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 15

Periodic sentence

Answer 15

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 16

Personification

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Rhetorical question

Answer 17

Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Question 18

Synedoche

Answer 18

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 19

Zeugma

Answer 19

Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings

Question 20

Alliteration

Answer 20

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