Ch 2 Glossary Terms

What is the repetition of consonant sounds called?

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Antithesis

Which term refers to a reference to an established literary work?

• Anaphora

• Allusion

• Antimetabole

• Asyndeton

What is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines?

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Asyndeton

• Zeugma

What is the term for the repetition of words in reverse order?

• Antimetabole

• Cumulative sentence

• Hortative sentence

• Metaphor

What is the opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction called?

• Asyndeton

• Antithesis

• Oxymoron

• Simile

What is the omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words?

• Cumulative sentence

• Asyndeton

• Synecdoche

• Personification

Which sentence type completes the main idea at the beginning and then builds and adds on?

• Periodic sentence

• Cumulative sentence

• Hortative sentence

• Rhetorical sentence

What is a sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action?

• Hortative sentence

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Zeugma

What is a figure of speech that compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

What is the paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another?

• Oxymoron

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Zeugma