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Question 1

Adage

Answer 1

A short, pointed mainly informal, memorable saying

Question 2

Pedantic

Answer 2

Precise, formal, accurate details used in writing

Question 3

Flippant

Answer 3

smart-aleck

Question 4

Evocative

Answer 4

language that “suggest” meanings other than the denotative

Question 5

Syntactical Inversion

Answer 5

It reverses the normal order of words in a phrase

Question 6

Apposition

Answer 6

Phrases placed side by side serving to identify each other

Question 7

Didactic

Answer 7

Texts that are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details

Question 8

Conceit

Answer 8

When two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors

Question 9

Periodic Sentence

Answer 9

Flipping the subject and predicate to create suspense and effect

Question 10

Paradox

Answer 10

A statement that is silly but includes some latent truth

Question 11

Irony

Answer 11

Words that are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words

Question 12

Parenthesis

Answer 12

A qualifying or explanatory sentence

Question 13

Sardonic

Answer 13

Grimly mocking; sarcastic

Question 14

Satire

Answer 14

A technique used to expose an individual by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule

Question 15

Polemical

Answer 15

Strongly critical, controversial, or disputations in writing or speech

Question 16

Ambiguity

Answer 16

A word, phrase, or statement that contains more than one meaning

Question 17

Archetype

Answer 17

A character, theme, symbol of even a setting

Question 18

Function of Archetype

Answer 18

Gives a literary work a universal acceptance

Question 19

Tragic Flaw

Answer 19

A trait in a character leading to his downfall

Question 20

Assertion

Answer 20

A statement with a strong belief that may or may not be true