Vocab List 4

Question 1

antithesis

Answer 1

two opposing ideas presented in a parallel manner

Question 2

apostrophe

Answer 2

a poetic device in which the speaker addresses an idea or a person who is not present

Question 3

declarative sentence

Answer 3

makes a statement

Question 4

elegiac

Answer 4

expressing sorrow for that which is in the past

Question 5

epithet

Answer 5

a descriptive word or phrase that stresses the dominant trait of a noun

Question 6

facetious

Answer 6

playfully humorous

Question 7

gothic

Answer 7

old fashioned (to the point of being crude or barbarous)

Question 8

idyllic

Answer 8

simple, tranquil, and care free

Question 9

imperative sentence

Answer 9

gives a command

Question 10

laudatory

Answer 10

expressing praise

Question 11

litotes

Answer 11

a type of understatement that asserts a point by denying its negative

Question 12

lugubrious

Answer 12

dismal or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated degree

Question 13

macabre

Answer 13

suggesting the horror of death and decay

Question 14

maudlin

Answer 14

excessively sentimental

Question 15

nostalgia

Answer 15

a bittersweet longing for things of the past

Question 16

rhapsodic

Answer 16

impassioned, enthusiastic, ecstatic

Question 17

appositive

Answer 17

a word or phrase that directly follows the noun it modifies

Question 18

obloquy

Answer 18

public condemnation

Question 19

paean

Answer 19

song of praise or joy

Question 20

phrase

Answer 20

a group of words without a subject, verb, or both