vocab

Question 1

HOMILY

Answer 1

Serious talk that involves moral or spiritual advice.

Question 2

INFER

Answer 2

to conclude from evidence.

Question 3

LOOSE SENTENCE

Answer 3

A sentence in which the independent clause comes first.

Question 4

GENRE

Answer 4

The major category in which a literary work fits.

Question 5

EUPHEMISM

Answer 5

A more acceptable way of saying something that causes discomfort.

Question 6

DICTION

Answer 6

Author’s choice of words.

Question 7

ANALOGY

Answer 7

Comparison between two different items.

Question 8

CHONOLOGICAL

Answer 8

Arrange according to time order.

Question 9

CLAUSE

Answer 9

A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb.

Question 10

AMBIGUITY

Answer 10

Something whose meaning is uncertain.

Question 11

CONTRAST

Answer 11

To show differences.

Question 12

DENOTATION

Answer 12

The literal or dictionary definition of a word.

Question 13

SARCASM

Answer 13

bitter language intended to hurt a person or thing.

Question 14

SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

Answer 14

The word or words that follow a linking verb.

Question 15

SOPHISTICATION

Answer 15

Wisdom caused by world experience.

Question 16

NARRATIVE

Answer 16

The telling of a story.

Question 17

METONOMY

Answer 17

Figure of speech in which the name of an object is substituted for another closely associated.

Question 18

SYNESTHETIC

Answer 18

Involving more than one sense.

Question 19

REPETITION

Answer 19

Duplication of sounds, words, phrases, or grammatical patterns.

Question 20

PARADOX

Answer 20

Statement that appears self contradictory.

Question 21

CONCEIT

Answer 21

A comparison of two highly dissimilar .

Question 22

COMPARISON

Answer 22

Statement of similarities.

Question 23

ANECDOTE

Answer 23

A short account of an incident

Question 24

ANTECEDENT

Answer 24

the word to which a pronoun occurs

Question 25

COLLOQUIAL

Answer 25

Characteristic of ordinary rather than formal speech

Question 26

WIT

Answer 26

Intellectual language that surprises and delights

Question 27

SATIRE

Answer 27

Work that ridicules humans and social institutions

Question 28

SEMANTICS

Answer 28

The meaning of a word or sentence.

Question 29

RHETORIC

Answer 29

The art of using language effectively

Question 30

PARODY

Answer 30

The imitation of a word intended to ridicule.

Question 31

PARALLELISM

Answer 31

Repetition of a word phrases or sentence

Question 32

MOOD

Answer 32

The emotion the reader feels

Question 33

DIATRIBE

Answer 33

Bitter verbal attack

Question 34

HYPERBOLE

Answer 34

An extreme exaggeration

Question 35

PERIODIC SENTENCE

Answer 35

A sentence with the independent clause at the end.

Question 36

PREDICATE ADJECTIVE

Answer 36

The adjective that follows a linking veb

Question 37

SYNECDOCHE

Answer 37

A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole thing.

Question 38

UNDERSTATEMENT

Answer 38

the presentation of something as less important than it really is.