American Literature

Question 0

Logos

Answer 0

Science, logic, statistics, facts.

Question 1

Pathos

Answer 1

Appeal to the audience emotions.

Question 2

Ethos

Answer 2

Use the author’s or speaker’s credibility to prove a point.

Question 3

Repetition

Answer 3

Repeats same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A comparison between things similarities and shared traits.

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

Author uses words to create mental images for readers.

Question 6

Lyric

Answer 6

In Ancient Greece the lyre was a musical instrument and lyric came to mean a song accompanied by music.

Question 7

Extended Metaphor

Answer 7

Comparison between to unlike things that continued throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

Question 8

Ought

Answer 8

Anything whatever.

Question 9

Pelf

Answer 9

Money or wealth looked upon with contempt.

Question 10

Whet

Answer 10

Sharpened by rubbing or grinding.

Question 11

Ineffable

Answer 11

Too overwhelming to be expressed in words.

Question 12

Lamb

Answer 12

The lamb of God, Jesus

Question 13

Mitigation

Answer 13

Lessening in severity, relief.

Question 14

Shroudly

Answer 14

Severely

Question 15

Succour

Answer 15

Aid or help in time of distress.

Question 16

Acts 28:2

Answer 16

The Apostle Paul was greeted courteously by the barbarians at Melita during a storm.

Question 17

Deuteronomy

Answer 17

Moses saw the Promised Land from Mount Pisgah in Palestine.

Question 18

Importunity

Answer 18

Repeated requests or demands.

Question 19

Shallow

Answer 19

A small open boat, fitted with oars or sails or both.

Question 20

League

Answer 20

An old measure of distance, usually about three miles.

Question 21

Meet

Answer 21

Suitable, proper

Question 22

Rendezvous

Answer 22

Camp, gathering of men at a set place.

Question 23

Flood

Answer 23

Ride, here about nine feet high.

Question 24

Sore

Answer 24

Severely

Question 25

Lee

Answer 25

A sheltered place on the side away from the wind

Question 26

Fain

Answer 26

Ready and willing, but unable to.

Question 27

Sachem

Answer 27

Indian chief.

Question 28

Comprised

Answer 28

Included

Question 29

Wigwam

Answer 29

Structure made of bark or mats laid over a dome-shaped frame of poles, used by the Algonquian Indians of the eastern woodlands of North America.

Question 30

Serene

Answer 30

Peaceful, calm

Question 31

Constitution

Answer 31

Way in which a person or thing is organized; makeup; nature

Question 32

Diligent

Answer 32

Hard-working;industrious

Question 33

Stature

Answer 33

Height