vocab quiz 3 words

Question 1

expletive

Answer 1

a single word or short phrase intended to emphasize surrounding words, often set off by commas (eg. in fact, of course, after all, certainly)

Question 1

epistolary

Answer 1

a piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters (eg. the perks of being a wallflower/the screwtape letters)

Question 2

chiasmus

Answer 2

figure of speech where the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second (eg. has the church failed man kind or has man kind failed the church)

Question 3

isocolon

Answer 3

parallel structure where the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length (eg. an envious heart makes a treacherous ear)

Question 4

zeugma

Answer 4

grammatically correct linkage of one subject with two or more verbs or a verb with two or more direct objects, linking shows a relationship between ideas more clearly (eg. she opened her door and her heart to the orphan)