Glossary Test 9

Question 1

Oxymoron

Answer 1

two contradictory words in one expression

Question 2

Pacing

Answer 2

the speed of a story’s action, dialogue, or narration

Question 3

Paradox

Answer 3

a seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth

Question 4

Paragraph

Answer 4

a series of closely related sentences that develop the central or controlling idea of the paragraph

Question 5

Parallelism

Answer 5

A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures in a series in order to develop an argument or emphasize an idea

Question 6

Parody

Answer 6

an effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the work or of the author’s style

Question 7

Pathos

Answer 7

A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work

Question 8

Person

Answer 8

A grammatical term that describes the relationship of a writer or speaker to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used

Question 9

Persona

Answer 9

the character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities