CNSL 144: QUIZ #5 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS VERIFIED
Combining words in an inseparable way that has meaning of its own such as,
"The whole box of wax." or "A grain of salt." are all example of what?
Idiom. Combines words to make a single meaning.
A word or phrase that swaps a thing for a collection of things as in "The White
House" is called a...
Synecdoche. Swapping one thing for a collection.
A word or phrase that takes a characteristic of something and makes it stand for
the whole as in "red" is called a?
Metonymy. Using a characteristic to describe a whole.
What is a trope?
Tropes makes a word stand for something different from its usual meanings.
According to Heinrichs, who saw our sense of reality as a kind of trope - a set of
images that stand for the real thing? (the answer is in a side panel)
Plato.
"Ask not what your country can do for, ask what you can do for your country," is
and figure of speech called a:
Chiasmus.
What does antithesis mean?
Weighs one argument next to the other.
DETAILED ANSWERS VERIFIED
Combining words in an inseparable way that has meaning of its own such as,
"The whole box of wax." or "A grain of salt." are all example of what?
Idiom. Combines words to make a single meaning.
A word or phrase that swaps a thing for a collection of things as in "The White
House" is called a...
Synecdoche. Swapping one thing for a collection.
A word or phrase that takes a characteristic of something and makes it stand for
the whole as in "red" is called a?
Metonymy. Using a characteristic to describe a whole.
What is a trope?
Tropes makes a word stand for something different from its usual meanings.
According to Heinrichs, who saw our sense of reality as a kind of trope - a set of
images that stand for the real thing? (the answer is in a side panel)
Plato.
"Ask not what your country can do for, ask what you can do for your country," is
and figure of speech called a:
Chiasmus.
What does antithesis mean?
Weighs one argument next to the other.
