Vocab

Question 1

Verb

Answer 1

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Question 2

Adverbs

Answer 2

A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ).

Question 3

Adjectives

Answer 3

A word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.

Question 4

Nouns

Answer 4

A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).

Question 5

Common Noun

Answer 5

A noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.

Question 6

Proper Nouns

Answer 6

A name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with an initial capital letter, e.g. Jane, London, and Oxfam.

Question 7

Pronoun

Answer 7

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).

Question 8

Personal Pronoun

Answer 8

Each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.

Question 9

Abstract Noun

Answer 9

A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.

Question 10

Concrete Noun

Answer 10

A noun denoting a material object rather than an abstract quality, state, or action.

Question 11

Collective Noun

Answer 11

A count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew ).

Question 12

Alliteration

Answer 12

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
The alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’

Question 13

Onomatopoeia

Answer 13

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g.

Question 14

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 14

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

Be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Question 16

Dramatic Irony

Answer 16

The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Question 17

Foreboding

Answer 17

A feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.
“with a sense of foreboding she read the note”

Question 18

Lexis

Answer 18

The total stock of words in a language

Question 19

Superlative

Answer 19

The highest quality of a word

Question 20

Modal Verb

Answer 20

An auxiliary verb that express necessary or possibility. Must, shall, will

Question 21

Determiner

Answer 21

A person or thing that determines the kind of reference

Question 22

Empathize

Answer 22

To understand and share someone else’s feeling

Question 23

Symbolism

Answer 23

the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Question 24

Motif

Answer 24

a pattern or recurring idea in an artistic

work.

Question 25

Slang

Answer 25

Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group

Question 26

Jargon

Answer 26

Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

Question 27

Colloquial

Answer 27

Used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.

Question 28

Oxymoron

Answer 28

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
e.g
Great Depression
Jumbo shrimp
Cruel to be kind
Pain for pleasure
Clearly confused
Act naturally
Beautifully painful
Painfully beautiful
Deafening silence
Pretty ugly

Question 29

Medias res

Answer 29

To start a story in the middle of action