Test Terms

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Using a story to represent/symbolize a historical event or some other issue.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

A technique where you begin several lines in an essay/speech which the same word or words to create a PARALLEL STRUCTURE

Question 4

Anecdote

Answer 4

Story or narrative account (part of something longer)

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure.

Question 6

Aphorism

Answer 6

A short statement that expresses a general truth about life (wisdom)

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personifies abstraction

Question 8

Caricature

Answer 8

A representation, especially pictorial or literary in which the subject’s features are deliberately exaggerated

Question 9

Colloquialism

Answer 9

Slang or informality in speech or writing

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

The feeling a word conveys

Question 11

Denotation

Answer 11

Dictionary definition of a word

Question 12

Didactic

Answer 12

Words that are described with this word often instruct/teach on moral principles

Question 13

Ad hominem argument

Answer 13

To attack someone personally