Unit 4 Lesson 31

Question 0

Malapropism

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Ridiculous misuse of words, especially by confusion of words that are similar in sound

Question 1

Bathos

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Anticlimax; triteness or triviality in style; sentimentality

Question 2

Metaphor

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The application of a word or phrase to an object or concept which it does not literally denote, in order to suggest a comparison with another object or concept

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Metonymy

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The use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “the bottle” for strong drink

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Onomatopoeia

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Formation of words in imitation of natural sounds; the use of words whose sound suggests the sense

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech by which a particular phrasing of words produces an effect by seeming self-contradiction, as in “cruel kindness” or “laborious idleness”

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Panegyric

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An oration, discourse or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy

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Paradigm

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Example or pattern; a set of forms in grammar all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem

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Paralipsis

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The suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much significant material is being omitted, as in the use of the phrase “not to mention other faults”

Question 9

Pleonasm

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The use of more words than necessary to express an idea; redundancy; superfluity

Question 10

Polyglot

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Knowing many or several languages; containing, composed of, or in several languages; a confusion of languages; a person with a speaking or reading knowledge of a number of languages; a book, especially a bible, containing the same text in several languages

Question 11

Semantics

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The study of meaning; the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.

*general semantics - an educational discipline concerning the relationship between symbols and reality and with improving the adjustment of people to each other and to the environment

Question 12

Simile

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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using the words “like” or “as,” as in “she is like a rose”

Question 13

Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in “ten sail” for “ten ships” or “a Croesus” for “a rich man” or the name of the material for the thing made (“willow” for “boat”)

Question 14

Threnody

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A poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song