All Definitions
Example
Diction Definitions
Syntax Definitions
Sentence Type Definitions
100
An indirect or passing reference
What is allusion?
100
"The snow is a white blanket."
What is a metaphor?
100
Giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
100
Two things placed together to create a contrasting effect
What is juxtaposition?
100
Used to give a command
What is an imperative sentence?
200
Repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of a sentence
What is anaphora?
200
"Go clean your room."
What is an imperative sentence?
200
Use of words that are no longer used
What is archaic diction?
200
The act of inverting something
What is inversion?
200
Encourages an action
What is a hortative sentence?
300
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
What is antithesis?
300
"Your backyard is a Garden of Evil."
What is an allusion?
300
Repetition of words in successive clauses
What is antimetabole?
300
The use of successive verbal constuctions
What is parallelism?
300
Independent clause followed by a series of clauses
What is an cumulative sentence?
400
The omission of a conjuction
What is asyndeton?
400
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is antithesis?
400
A term for a part of something that is actually represents the whole
What is synecdoche?
400
Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjuction
What is oxymoron?
400
The main clause or predicate is at the end
What is a periodic sentence?
500
A word that applies to two others in different senses
What is zeugma?
500
"Experienced at his job, the young man has become."
What is inversion?
500
Contradictory terms appearing together
What is oxymoron?
500
This sentence type has the main clause at the end?
What is a periodic sentence?
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