Summer Vocabulary words

Question 1

ALLUSION

Answer 1

A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create or enhance the meaning of the text.

Question 2

AMBIGUITY

Answer 2

A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings or interpretations.

Question 3

ANAPHORA

Answer 3

The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successful, versus clauses or sentences.

Question 4

Anecdote

Answer 4

A brief narrative often used to illustrate an idea or make a point.

Question 5

ANTECEDENT

Answer 5

A word to which a pronoun refers

Question 6

ANTITHESIS

Answer 6

A rhetoric opposition, or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, closet sentences as in the following:
“ they promised us freedom, but provided slavery.”

Question 7

APOSTROPHE

Answer 7

is when a writer or speaker addresses someone who isn’t present or isn’t alive, an inanimate object, an abstract idea, or an imaginary figure.
Example:
“Oh, you cross streets of Manhattan, how I abhor uou”!

Question 8

CLAUSE

Answer 8

A structural element of a sentence, consisting of grammatical subject and a predicate. Independent clauses, called main clauses, may stand on their own, as a complete sentence, end, dependent clauses, which are used as nouns or modifiers, or incomplete sentences, and may not stand alone.

Question 9

CIRCUMLOCUTION

Answer 9

Literally “ talking around” a subject: ; discourse that avoids direct reference to a particular subject.

Question 10

CONCEIT

Answer 10

A witty or ingenious thought, I diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language

Question 11

Connotation

Answer 11

The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase

Question 12

DEDUCTIVE REASONING

Answer 12

A method of reasoning by which specific definitions conclusions or and theorem’s are drawn from a general principle. It’s opposite is inductive reasoning.

Question 13

DICTION

Answer 13

The choice of words in oral or written discourse.

Written discourse involves the structure, coherence, logical development, and range of linguistic resources in a written text.

Question 14

DIDACTIC

Answer 14

Having an instructive purpose ; intending to convey information or teach a lesson

Question 15

EUPHEMISM

Answer 15

A mild or less negative usage for harsh or blunt terms

Question 16

EXPOSITION

Answer 16

The background and events that lead to the presentation of the main idea or purpose of an essay or other works; setting for the meeting, or purpose of a piece of written or discourse

Question 17

Explication

Answer 17

The interpretation or analysis of a text

Question 18

Fallacious Reasoning

Answer 18

An incorrect belief or supposition, based on a faulty data, defective evidence.

Question 19

HYPERBOLE

Answer 19

Gross exaggeration or rhetoric affect gross exaggeration for the rhetoric affect. 

Question 20

INDUCTIVE REASONING

Answer 20

A method of reasoning in which a number of specific facts or examples are used to make a generalization.

Question 21

METONYMY

Answer 21

I figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated.
Example : “the White House, declares…”

Question 22

OXYMORON

Answer 22

A term consisting of a contradictory element juxtaposed to create a paradoxical affect.
Example: loud silence, jumbo shrimp

Question 23

PARADOX

Answer 23

A statement that seems self contradictory, but is never the less true

Question 24

Parallel Structure

Answer 24

The structure required for expressing two or more grammatical elements of equal, rank, end, coordinated ideas, compared and contrasted ideas, and correlate of construction.
Example: “ colleges, favor, applicants with strong academics, varied interests, and high standardized, test scores”

Question 25

PARODY

Answer 25

An imitation of work meant to ridicule its style and subject

Question 26

PERSONA

Answer 26

The role or façade, that a character assumes to depict to a reader.

Question 27

PUN

Answer 27

A humorous play on words, using similar - sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings

Question 28

REFUTATION

Answer 28

The part of a discourse, where, in opposing arguments are anticipated and refuted

Question 29

rhetoric

Answer 29

The language of a work or its style; words, often highly emotional, use to convince or sway an audience.

Question 30

RHETORICAL MODE

Answer 30

General term that identifies discourse, according to its chief purpose. Modes include exposition.( to explain, analyze, or discuss an idea.), argumentation( to prove a point or persuade), description( to re-create or present with details), and narration (to relate by way of an antecdote or story

Question 31

RHETORICAL QUESTION

Answer 31

A question to which the audience already knows the answer; a question ask merely for a fact, with no answer expected.

Question 32

SATIRE

Answer 32

A literary style used to poke, fun at, attack, or ridicule, an idea, vice, Foible, often for the purpose of inducing social change.

Question 33

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Answer 33

The arrangements of a sentence. A sentence, maybe simple (one subject and one verb), compound( two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction), or complex( an independent clause +1 or more dependent clauses.

Question 34

STYLISTIC DEVICES

Answer 34

A general term, referring to dictation, syntax, tone, figurative, language, and all the other elements that contribute to “style “, or manner of a given piece of discourse.

Question 35

Syllogism

Answer 35

A form of deductive reasoning, in which given certain ideas or facts. Other ideas or facts, must follow.

Example “all men are mortals. Mike is a man; therefore, Mike is a mortal. “

Question 36

SYECDOCHE

Answer 36

Figure of speech in which part signifies the whole (50 masts instead of 50 ships) or the whole signifies the part( days for life, as in “he had lived his days under the African son): when the name of the material stands, for the thing itself, as in pigskin for football.

Question 37

SYNTAX

Answer 37

The arrangements of an organization of language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular syntax, or pattern of words.

Question 38

TONE

Answer 38

The authors attitude towards the subject being written about. The tone is the characteristics emotion that provides a work or part of a work; the spirit or quality that is the works emotional essence.

Question 39

Verisimilitude

Answer 39

Similar to the truth; the quality of realism, the persuade readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is.

Question 40

VOICE

Answer 40

The real or assumed personality, used by a writer or speaker. In grammar, active voice, and passive voice, refers to the use of verbs. A verb is in the active voice. When did it expresses action performed by its subject. A verb is in the passive voice, when it expresses an action performed upon its subject, or when the subject is the result of the action.

Active; the crew rake, the leaves
Passive; the leaves were raped by the crew.
Stylistically, the active voice leads to the more economical and vigorous writing.