Style, Figurative Language, and syntax

Question 1

Analogy

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A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

Question 2

Archaic language

Answer 2

Language that was once common in a particular historical period but which is no longer commonly used

Question 3

Colloquial language

Answer 3

Informal language, language that is conversational

Question 4

Complex sentence

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A sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more subordinate clause (usually begins with words such as after, before, although, because, until, when, while, and if)

Question 5

Compound sentence

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A sentence structure made up of two independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunction. “Don’t open the door or a deadly smell will kill”

Question 6

Concrete diction

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Specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions. These words refer to what we can immediately perceive with our senses

Question 7

Connotation

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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

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An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail.

Question 9

Denotation

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Literal meaning of a word. The dictionary definition of a word

Question 10

Diction

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A writer/speaker’s choice of words

Question 11

Extended metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that continues through a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem

Question 12

Figures of speech

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Writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally (hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, understatement)

Question 13

Imagery

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Consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader’s five senses

Question 14

Inverted sentence

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Any sentence in which the normal word order is reversed, with the verb coming before the subject or the complete subject/predicate coming after another clause

Question 15

Irony

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A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words

Question 16

Metaphor

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A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. Comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as

Question 17

Mood

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The feeling the reader experiences as a result of the tone; emotional coloring of a work

Question 18

Overstatement/hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic effect.

Question 19

Paradox

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A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but after close examination contains some degree of truth

Question 20

Parallel structure

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Repetition of words/phrases that have similar grammatical form

Question 21

Periodic sentence

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Begins with details, qualifications, or modifications, building toward the main clause.
Presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end

Question 22

Personification

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A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes things but endowing them with human attributes or emotions

Question 23

Simile

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A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing us explicitly to something else using the worlds like or as

Question 24

Simple sentence

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A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause

Question 25

slang

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Informal, nonstandard language, often used within a particular group

Question 26

Syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in language

Question 27

Tone

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Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices

Question 28

Understatement

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The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

Question 29

Abstract Diction

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Words that express general ideas or concepts