Rhetorical Vocabulary #12

Question 1

literary

Answer 1

appropriate to literature, rather than everyday speech

Question 2

despairing

Answer 2

marked by loss of hope

Question 3

contempt

Answer 3

willful disobedience to or respect towards authority

Question 4

bewilderment

Answer 4

confusion resulting in failure to understand

Question 5

narration

Answer 5

the second section of oration in which the facts are set forth

Question 6

description

Answer 6

sort or variety, a statement that represents something

Question 7

definition

Answer 7

a concise explanation of a word or phrase

Question 8

classification

Answer 8

a group of things arranged by class or category

Question 9

process analysis

Answer 9

a description of a specific event or process that is being described in depth

Question 10

mode of composition

Answer 10

how something is arranged or composed, what parts it is made up of

Question 11

exalted

Answer 11

high moral or intellectual value

Question 12

interrogative

Answer 12

relating to or resembling an interrogations, questions being asked

Question 13

imperative

Answer 13

of severe importance