English Vocabulary #1

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

the occurrence of repatition of the same letter or sound in closely connected words

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicity; an indirect or passing reference known by the reader

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed directly to a person or thing

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

the second meaning of a word or symbol

Question 5

Denotition

Answer 5

primary and most basic meaning of a word or symbol

Question 6

hyerbole

Answer 6

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

the comparison of one thing with another thing not using like or as

Question 8

Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

the formation of a word from a sound associate with whiat is named

Question 9

Simile

Answer 9

the comparison of one thing with another thing using like or as

Question 10

Theme

Answer 10

the subject of talk, piece of writting, exhibition; an idea that recurs in ot pervades a work of art or literature; a universal statement about life

Question 11

Assonance

Answer 11

resemblance of sounds; partial agreement or correspondances

Question 12

Cliche

Answer 12

a stereotyped expression; sentance or phase expressing a common idea

Question 13

Consonance

Answer 13

corresponding sounds; harmany of sounds

Question 14

Euphemism

Answer 14

the substitution an indirect or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

to show or indicate before hand; prefigure

Question 16

Imagery

Answer 16

the formation of mental images, figures or likenesses of thing; pictorial images

Question 17

Irony

Answer 17

the use of words to convey an meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning

Question 18

Juxtaposition

Answer 18

an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for compare and contrast

Question 19

Oxymoron

Answer 19

a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect as in “curel kindness” or to make haste slowly”

Question 20

Symbol

Answer 20

a word, phrase, image or the like having a complec of associated meaings; represents something

Question 21

Conflict

Answer 21

1. Man vs Man; 2. Man vs Self; 3. Man vs Society 4. Man vs Environment 5. Man vs Supernatural 6. Man vs Machine/ Technology

Question 22

Mood

Answer 22

a category of the verb or beral inflection that expresses semantic and grammatical differences, including such forms as the indicative, subjunctie, and imperative

Question 23

Paradox

Answer 23

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth; a self contradictory and false proposition

Question 24

Personification

Answer 24

the attribute of human nature or character to animal, inaimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figures; the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art

Question 25

Pun

Answer 25

the humerous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or appiclations or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meanings; a play on words; the word or phrase used in this way