Style Elements: Ch. 2 Definitions

Reference to a person, place, or event

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Antimetabole

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Antimetabole

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Repetition of words in reverse order

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Antimetabole

• Antithesis

Opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in parallel construction

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Antimetabole

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Alliteration

• Archaic diction

• Asyndeton

• Inversion

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words

• Alliteration

• Archaic diction

• Asyndeton

• Inversion

Omission or conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

• Alliteration

• Archaic diction

• Asyndeton

• Inversion

Inverted order of words in a sentence

• Alliteration

• Archaic diction

• Asyndeton

• Inversion

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• paradox

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

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4