Fall Final

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Isocolon

Answer 2

A series of similarly structured elements having the same length (word, syllable).

Question 3

Tricolon

Answer 3

Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together.

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas (often in parallel structure).

Question 5

Climax

Answer 5

Generally, the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure. When these items decrease in importance the result is anticlimax.

Question 6

Anastrophe

Answer 6

Inversion of natural word order.

Question 7

Parenthesis

Answer 7

Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

Question 8

Apposition

Answer 8

Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory element, called an appositive.

Question 9

Ellipsis

Answer 9

Omission of a word or words readily implied by context.

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

Omission of conjunctions between a series of words or clauses.

Question 11

Polysyndeton

Answer 11

Opposite of asyndeton, a superabundance of conjunctions

Question 12

Alliteration

Answer 12

Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

Question 13

Assonance

Answer 13

Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

Question 14

Polyptoton

Answer 14

Repetition of words derived from the same root.

Question 15

Antanaclasis

Answer 15

Repetition of a word in two different senses. (sometimes considered a trope)
Example: “If we don’t hang together, we will surely hang separately.”

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.