running notes 41-48

Question 1

Adage

Answer 1

A short, pointed and memorable bowl saying based on facts and is considered a vendable truth by the majority of the people. An adage expresses a general fact or truth about life.

Question 2

Pedantic

Answer 2

Someone who is concerned with Precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning he could be a writer, a character, feelings, tone or words.

Question 3

Flippant

Answer 3

Lacking proper respect or seriousness. Facetious or smart- aleck.

Question 4

Evocative

Answer 4

The use of language that suggest meanings other then the denotative. language that connects with emotions not associated with the actual meaning of a word

Question 5

Syntactical inversion

Answer 5

Literary style and rhetoric, the synthetic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence. as in English the placing of adjective after the noun it modifies

Question 6

Apposition

Answer 6

Grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side-by-side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way.

Question 7

Didactic

Answer 7

Frequently used for those literary text which are overloaded with in from informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. it is a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite.

Question 8

Conceit

Answer 8

A figure of speech in which 2 vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors.