Advanced Vocabulary quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What term describes rearranging the letters of 'cinema' into 'iceman'?

   Answer: Anagram

   Why: Galileo hid discoveries in anagrams. His 1610 Saturn one decoded to 'the most distant planet is triple'. He never worked out it was a ring.

2. 2 Medium

   Which rhetorical device repeats a word at the beginning of successive sentences?

   Answer: Anaphora

   Why: While anaphora repeats words at the beginning of consecutive clauses, epistrophe places the repetition at the end.

3. 3 Hard

   What device repeats words at the end of consecutive clauses?

   Answer: Epistrophe

   Why: While anaphora repeats words at the start of sentences, epistrophe places the repetition at the very end.

4. 4 Easy

   What are words that sound identical but have different meanings?

   Answer: Homophones

   Why: Homophones share identical pronunciation regardless of spelling, whereas homographs share spelling regardless of sound.

5. 5 Medium

   How is a misheard song lyric that creates an unintended new meaning classified?

   Answer: Mondegreen

   Why: Writer Sylvia Wright coined the word in 1954 after mishearing the Scottish ballad line 'and laid him on the green' as 'Lady Mondegreen'.

6. 6 Hard

   What device repeats the same word twice with two different meanings?

   Answer: Antanaclasis

   Why: Antanaclasis needs the very same word back in a new sense; polyptoton only changes its form, as with judge and judgment.