Terms 41-45

Question 1

Topic sentence

Answer 1

A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph that announces the paragraph’s idea and often unites it with the work’s thesis

Question 2

Trope

Answer 2

Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech

Question 3

Understatement

Answer 3

lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect

Question 4

Voice

Answer 4

In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing

Question 5

Zeugma

Answer 5

A construction in which one word(usually a verb) modifies or governs–often in a different, sometimes incongruent ways– two or more words in a sentence.