Advanced Vocabulary quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What is a word having the opposite meaning of another word?

   Answer: Antonym

   Why: Antonyms can either represent opposite ends of a continuous scale or strictly mutually exclusive binary states.

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 genre uses humor and irony to expose human foolishness?

   Answer: Satire

   Why: While parody mocks a specific creative work, satire targets broader societal corruption and human folly.

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.