English Terms Ch. 2

Repition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

Brief refernce to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.

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

Repetition of words in reverse order.

Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balance or parallel construction.

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then build and adds on.

Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action.

Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat.

Inverted Order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order).

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.

Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison.

Using a single feature to represent the whole.

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea.

Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather then fro the purpose of getting an answer.

Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meaning.