7. Connotations And Propaganda

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

A reference to anything, especially within a work of literature

Question 2

Literary allusion

Answer 2

A reference to a literary work, particularly to one that is well-known, either by quoting from the material or by mentioning the work

Question 3

A word’s etymology reflects changes in?

Answer 3

Meaning and form

Question 4

Factor responsible for meaning changes is?

Answer 4

The connotation of a word

Question 5

Denotation

Answer 5

A word’s literal, dictionary definition

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

Commonly understood cultural or emotional association that a word or phrase carries

Question 7

Primary force behind the processes of amelioration and pejoration?

Answer 7

A word’s connotations

Question 8

Unpleasant connotations can change?

Answer 8

The literal meaning of words

Question 9

Propagandists and poets use?

Answer 9

Connotations

Question 10

___ used propaganda in their plays as a method of teaching ___

Answer 10

Greeks, moral behavior

Question 11

Demosthenes

Answer 11

Famous Athenian orator

Used propaganda to rally the people of his city against Philip of Macedonia

Question 12

Demosthenes failed but?

Answer 12

Another propagandist succeeded 2,000 years later

Question 13

Thomas Paine

Answer 13

Emigrant to England
Pamphlets aroused colonists to revolutionary war (Common Sense)
First to advocate a “declaration of independence.”