Syntax

Question 1

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania…”

Answer 1

Anaphora

Question 2

“In every cry of every Man, In every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”

Answer 2

Anaphora

Question 3

“It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.”

Answer 3

Anaphora

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Anaphora

Question 5

“Sweet Portia,
If you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know for whom I gave the ring, And would conceive for what I gave the ring”

Answer 5

Epiphora

Question 6

“I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper.”

Answer 6

Epiphora

Question 7

“I’ve gotta be your damn conscience. I’m tired of being your conscience. I don’t enjoy being your conscious.”

Answer 7

Epiphora

Question 8

A stylistic device in which a word or a phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses; sometimes called epistrophe.

Answer 8

Epiphora

Question 9

A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

Answer 9

Parallelism

Question 10

Their son loved playing chess, video games, and soccer.

Answer 10

Parallelism

Question 11

“We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers.”

Answer 11

Parallelism

Question 12

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

Answer 12

Parallelism

Question 13

A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions.

Answer 13

Asyndeton

Question 14

We went to the park, played on the jungle gym, ran around, had a picnic… That was about it!

Answer 14

Asyndeton

Question 15

Friends for now, forever.

Answer 15

Asyndeton

Question 16

“Unbelievable sights Indescribable feelings Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling Through an endless diamond sky”

Answer 16

Asyndeton

Question 17

The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural.

Answer 17

Polysyndeton

Question 18

“We have ships and men and money and stores.”

Answer 18

Polysyndeton

Question 19

“Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.”

Answer 19

Polysyndeton

Question 20

“With both of us hunting daily, there are still nights when game has to be swapped for lard or shoelaces or wool, still nights when we go to bed with our stomachs growling.”

Answer 20

Polysyndeton

Question 21

Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Answer 21

Juxtaposition

Question 22

These two situations are like apples and oranges.

Answer 22

Juxtapostion

Question 23

You are making a mountain out of a molehill.

Answer 23

Juxtaposition

Question 24

Next to Tybalt who was known as a fighter, Romeo was a lover.

Answer 24

Juxtaposition

Question 25

Using two clauses with a reversal of meaning in order to create an inverse parallel. It is a two-part sentence or phrase where the concepts and parts of speech are mirrored.

Answer 25

Chiasmus

Question 26

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

Answer 26

Chiasmus

Question 27

“If black men have no rights in the eyes of the white men, of course, the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks.’

Answer 27

Chiasmus

Question 27

“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”

Answer 27

Chiasmus

Question 28

The main idea of a piece of discourse; the statement or proposition that a speaker or writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend.

Answer 28

Thesis

Question 29

Vaccinations
Because many children are unable to vaccinate due to illness, we must require that all healthy and able children be vaccinated in order to have herd immunity.

Answer 29

Thesis

Question 30

Educational Resources for Low-Income Students
Schools should provide educational resources for low-income students during the summers so that they don’t forget what they’ve learned throughout the school year.

Answer 30

Thesis

Question 31

School Uniforms
School uniforms may be an upfront cost for families, but they eradicate the visual differences in income between students and provide a more egalitarian atmosphere at school.

Answer 31

Thesis

Question 32

A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences.

Answer 32

Antithesis

Question 33

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

Answer 33

Antithesis

Question 34

“Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.”

Answer 34

Antithesis

Question 35

“Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open.”

Answer 35

Antithesis