APLAC Glossary Test 9/28

Question 1

Atmosphere

Answer 1

The emotional feeling or mood of a place, scene, or event

Question 2

Attitude

Answer 2

Describes the feeling of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea

Question 3

Audience

Answer 3

The intended readership for a piece of writing

Question 4

Bathos

Answer 4

1) A false or forced emotion that is often humorous due to taking emotion to an extreme
2) a serious or important subject is suddenly turned into a ridiculous one

Question 5

Beginning

Answer 5

The sentence, group of sentences, or section that introduces an essay

Question 6

Cause & Effect or Causal Analysis

Answer 6

Answers the question why? It explains the reasons for an occurrence or the consequences of an action

Question 7

Chiasmus

Answer 7

A rhetorical or literary device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form

Question 8

Claim

Answer 8

The thesis or proposition put forth in argument

Question 9

Classification

Answer 9

The writer arranges and sorts people, places, or things into categories according to their differing characteristics

Question 10

Cliche

Answer 10

An expression that has become ineffective through overuse

Question 11

Coherance

Answer 11

A quality of good writing that results when all sentences, paragraphs, ad longer divisions of an essay are naturally connected

Question 12

Colloquial Expressions

Answer 12

Characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks its effect; an informal expression for specific languages