Vocab list

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 4

Ambiguity

Answer 4

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Question 5

Analogy

Answer 5

a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Question 7

coloquial

Answer 7

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

Question 8

connotation

Answer 8

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Question 9

denotation

Answer 9

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

Question 10

diction

Answer 10

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Question 11

extended metaphor

Answer 11

refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem

Question 12

figurative language

Answer 12

language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

Question 13

figure of speech

Answer 13

a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

Question 14

genre

Answer 14

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Question 15

imagery

Answer 15

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

Question 16

inference

Answer 16

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Question 17

verbal irony

Answer 17

a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

Question 18

situational irony

Answer 18

irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Question 19

dramatic irony

Answer 19

irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

Question 20

personification

Answer 20

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 21

point of view

Answer 21

used especially in describing a method of shooting a scene or film that expresses the attitude of the director or writer toward the material or of a character in a scene.

Question 22

prose

Answer 22

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Question 23

repetition

Answer 23

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Question 24

Satire

Answer 24

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Question 25

Semantics

Answer 25

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.

Question 26

Symbolism

Answer 26

the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Question 27

theme

Answer 27

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Question 28

Thesis

Answer 28

a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

Question 29

tone

Answer 29

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Question 30

Transition

Answer 30

are words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs

Question 31

voice

Answer 31

is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text