Quick Quiz Terms

Question 1

A concise statement designed to make a point, illustrate held belief

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Aphorism

Question 2

Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas

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Antithesis

Question 3

An address or invocation to something inanimate

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Apostrophe

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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, successive or proximate words

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Assonance

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Arguer sidesteps the question

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Begging the question

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That which has been accepted as authentic

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Canon

Question 7

The order of the terms of the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in second

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Chiasmus

Question 8

Comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature ( extended metaphor)

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Conceit

Question 9

Repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels

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Consonance

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An accepted manner, model, tradition

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Convention

Question 11

Assessment or analysis of something for purpose of determining what it is…

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Critique

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General to specific

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Deductive reasoning

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Greek ‘good teaching’

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Didactic

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Work that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person

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Elegy

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Repetition of phrase at the end of successive sentences

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Epistrophe

Question 16

Writing in praise of dead person

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Epitath

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Passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of deceased

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Eulogy

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Interpretation or analysis of text

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Exposition

Question 19

Series of comparisons within piece of writing

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Extended metaphor

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Specific to general

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Inductive reasoning

Question 21

Parallel structure in which parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also length

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Isocolon

Question 22

Long sentence that starts with main clause, followed by several dependent clauses

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Loose sentence

Question 23

Way in which information is presented in written/ spoken form

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Mode of discourse

Question 24

Use of similar forms in writing for nouns, …

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Parallel structure

Question 25

Relation in which a narrator stands to a subject of discourse

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Point of view

Question 26

Ordinary written language without metrical structure

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Prose

Question 27

Opposing arguments are anticipated and countered

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Rebuttal

Question 28

Manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes ideas…

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Style