Vocab at the end of the chapter.
1839596334 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence | 0 | |
1839596335 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | 1 | |
1839596336 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
1839596337 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
1839596338 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel contstruction | 4 | |
1839596339 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 5 | |
1839596340 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
1839596341 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
1839596342 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | 8 | |
1839596343 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | 9 | |
1839596344 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject- verb-object order) | 10 | |
1839596345 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 11 | |
1839596346 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison | 12 | |
1839596347 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
1839596348 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
1839596349 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
1839596350 | Personification | Attributionn of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 16 | |
1839596351 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 17 | |
1839596352 | synecdoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
1839596353 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way to producing different, often incongruous, meanings Mix of one physical/concrete thing and one abstract thing (After the game the players were covered in *mud* and *glory*) | 19 |