Vocab 2

Question 1

archetype

Answer 1

patterns that recur in legends, ceremonies and stories

Question 2

Argument

Answer 2

a spoken, written or visual text that expresses a point of view; (2) the use of evidence and reason to discover some version of the truth, as distinct from persuasion, the attempt to change someone else’s point of view

Question 3

aside

Answer 3

A short soliloquy

Question 4

assonance

Answer 4

repetition of identical / similar vowel sounds

Question 5

asyndenton

Answer 5

style where conjunctions are omitted (x, y, z as opposed to x, y, and z)

Question 6

atmosphere

Answer 6

The emotional feeling created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author’s choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere.

Question 7

Attitude

Answer 7

Tone, voice, mood of writing

Question 8

balance

Answer 8

situation in which all parts of the presentation are equal, whether in sentences or paragraphs or sections of a longer work

Question 9

bandwagon

Answer 9

see “ad populum fallacy”

Question 10

begging the question

Answer 10

a fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. It “begs” question whether the support itself is sound

Question 11

cacophony

Answer 11

harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage

Question 12

canon

Answer 12

that which has been accepted as authentic

Question 13

caricature

Answer 13

a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics.

Question 14

round

Answer 14

A character that has many traits

Question 15

flat

Answer 15

A character that has one or two traits

Question 16

Static

Answer 16

A character that does not change throughout the story

Question 17

Dynamic

Answer 17

A character that does change throughout the story

Question 18

direct characterization

Answer 18

the writer tells us directly what the character is like through description and dialogue

Question 19

indirect characterization

Answer 19

the reader has to figure out what a character is like, just as we do in real life when we are getting to know someone

Question 20

chiasmus

Answer 20

Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted)

Question 21

circular reasoning

Answer 21

a fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence