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Worksheet time: 8mins
A literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.
parallelism
asyndeton
polysyndeton
anaphora
repetition
In Cold Blood: Capote describes Mrs. Clutter as “nervous” and “quiet” instead of directly stating her mental illness. This is an example of...
Diction
Euphemism
Idiom
Understatement
Personification
The Great Gatsby: “I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mit, promising to unfold the secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.
Paradox
Repetition
Oxymoron
Symbol
Allusion
In Cold Blood: “He’d give an arm and a leg to talk to Dick.”
Dramatic Irony
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Parallelism
Paradox
a figure of speech that employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, a positive statement expressed by negating its opposite expressions.
simile
oxymoron
litotes
allusion
idiom
An example of asyndeton is...
“Letter from Birmingham Jail”: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: “Will you join in this historic effort?”
The Great Gatsby: Wolfsheim is described as eating with “ferocious delicacy”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: “ . . . [W]e shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: ”the power to abolish a forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
An example of juxtaposition is...
Great Gatsby: “What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyway?”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: ”the power to abolish a forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
The Things They Carried: “Just boom, then down” “Boom. Down” “Boom-down, he said. Like cement.
The Great Gatsby: Wolfsheim is described as eating with “ferocious delicacy”
A Modest Proposal: “Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass; the sin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.”
Which of the following is an example of jargon?
JFK’s Inaugural Address: ”to foe and friend alike”
The Great Gatsby: “I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
The Great Gatsby: “I’ve got my hands full.”
TTTC: “It was SOP for each man to carry a steel-centered, nylon-covered flak jacket.”
The Things They Carried: “Just boom, then down” “Boom. Down” “Boom-down, he said. Like cement.”
Which of these is an example of paradox?
The Great Gatsby: “I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: “let both sides” (repeated at beginning of paragraphs 15-18)
The Great Gatsby: “I’ve got my hands full.”
The Great Gatsby: “This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat.”
The Great Gatsby: Jordan describes Myrtle as “some woman” instead of a mistress.
Which of these is an example of verbal irony?
The Great Gatsby: “...enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.”
The Great Gatsby: “Well, I tried to swing the wheel - he broke off and suddenly I guessed at the truth”
In Cold Blood: “an inch more of rain and this country would be a paradise, Eden on Earth.”
The Great Gatsby: “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.”
JFK’s Inaugural Address: “Will you join in this historic effort?”
the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech
parallelism
repetition
colloquialism
juxtaposition
anaphora
A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.
allusion
imagery
symbol
litotes
jargon
JFK’s Inaugural Address: ”to foe and friend alike” is an example of...
oxymoron
paradox
allusion
antithesis
none of the above
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
idiom
a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
non sequitur
satire
allusion
paradox
juxtaposition
