a person, real or imaginary, from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to take its name.
What is eponym [ep-uh-nim] ?
100
a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude.
What is mood?
100
portrayal; description.
What is characterization?
100
forming, constituting, or used in or to form a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
200
Mercutio
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200
a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
What is paraprosdokian [para pros DOK ian] ?
200
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
What is allusion?
200
literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, with the use of coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions.
What is parataxis?
200
something that demands attention or action; an unavoidable obligation or requirement; necessity.
What is an imperative sentence?
300
Ann
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300
a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence.
"It makes me so—I just get angry."
What is anacoluthon [an-uh-kuh-loo-thon] ?
300
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
What is imagery?
300
dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
What is hypotaxis?
300
a sentence having only one clause.
What is a simple sentence?
400
Jesus o:)
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400
a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each.
"On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold."
What is zeugma [zoog-muh] ?
400
the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
What is pun?
400
a fastening together, repetition.
What is epizeuxis?
400
a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause.
"The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause)."
What is a compound sentence?
500
New York
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500
the use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and predicate, as in “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
What is hypozeuxis [hahy-puh-zook-sis] ?
500
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
500
a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them.
What is epiplexis?
500
is made from two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.