Vocab 4

Question 1

Juxtaposition

Answer 1

Juxtaposition: The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose

Question 2

Litote

Answer 2

Litote: A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement

Question 3

Loose Sentence

Answer 3

Loose Sentence: A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

Metaphor: One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of like or as.

Question 5

Metonymy

Answer 5

Metonymy: A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something

Question 6

Mode of Discourse:

Answer 6

Mode of Discourse: The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form. Narration, description, process analysis , and cause and effect are all types of this

Question 7

Narrative

Answer 7

Narrative: A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework

Question 8

Mood

Answer 8

Mood: A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view. It is a “feeling” that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia: A word capturing or approximating the sound of what is described. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener.

Question 10

Oxymoron

Answer 10

Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

Question 11

Paradox

Answer 11

Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true

Question 12

Parallel Structure

Answer 12

Parallel Structure: The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.

Question 13

Pathos

Answer 13

Pathos: That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity.

Question 14

Periodic Sentence

Answer 14

Periodic Sentence: A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

Personification: Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities