Lit Terms And Vocab Quiz 1

Question 1

Digression

Answer 1

a stylistic device authors employ to create a temporary departure from the main subject of the narrative to focus on apparently unrelated topics, explaining background details

Question 2

Poetic License

Answer 2

the freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect

Question 3

Understatement

Answer 3

a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is

Question 4

Averred

Answer 4

to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner

Question 5

Complacency

Answer 5

a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.

Question 6

Erudite

Answer 6

characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

Question 7

Homage

Answer 7

respect or reverence paid or rendered

Question 8

Illusory

Answer 8

causing illusion; deceptive; misleading

Question 9

Malevolent

Answer 9

wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious

Question 10

Minutiae

Answer 10

precise details; small or trifling matters

Question 11

Privation

Answer 11

lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life

Question 12

Proclivity

Answer 12

natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition

Question 13

Prodigy

Answer 13

a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability

Question 14

Profundity

Answer 14

the quality or state of being profound(penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding); depth

Question 15

Repudiation

Answer 15

the act of repudiating (to reject as having no authority or binding force)

Question 16

Reticent

Answer 16

disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved

Question 17

Reverence

Answer 17

a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration

Question 18

Satirically

Answer 18

of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire(the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.)

Question 19

Sophisticated

Answer 19

(of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive

Question 20

Zealous

Answer 20

full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent