Vocab Quiz #3 Flashcards
grisly
inspiring horror or intense fear
EX: the town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes
sedition
treason; rebel against authority
used as “____ was an act of sedition”
EX: breaking the law
anathematize
something or someone that one strongly dislikes; someone who is cursed or shunned
EX: The children hate wearing uniforms to school and view the dress code as an anathema.
nefarious
flagrantly wicked; evil
they are bad and they want you to know it
EX: Pirate
tenet
an opinion, principle, belief, which a person holds or maintains true
EX: the amendments
petulant
rude in speech or behavior
virtuoso
someone who has great skill in something
EX: virtuoso violinist
redoubtable
arrousing fear or alarm
worthy of respect or horror
idyll
a simple descriptive work
light hearted poem or book about nature
EX: Tom Sawyer book(light hearted care free natural setting)
epithet
a nickname
negative nickname
bad connotation
magnanimous
generous with courage
impervious
not allowing entrance or passage
EX: Raincoat
Question-Begging Epithet
Calls someone a name that implies a quality or fact that is not proved
Equivocation
Changes the meaning of a word or phrase in mid-discussion
Appeal to Emotions
Manipulates agreement by way of emotion instead of cogent reason
Special Pleading
Colors the language according to the arguers’ perspective
Amphiboly
Exploits grammatical ambiguity with the syntax to lead to a false or questionable conclusion.
EX: Slow children crossing
Complex Question
Asks a question that assumes and so corners its respondent
Parallelism
repeated grammatical form
Metonymy
a type of metaphor that uses something closely associated with (but not part of) a subject in order to represent that subject. (“The pen is mightier than the sword.”)
Personification
metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes—
Polysyndeton
the use of conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause for the purpose of sounding deliberate or heavily labored; structurally the opposite of asyndeton
Metanoia
the act of correcting one’s self to create a rhetorical effect.
Praeteritio
calling attention to a point by seeming to dismiss or ignore it
Irony
a statement whose hidden meaning is different from its surface meaning; a conclusion opposite from expectation
Hypophora
asks one or more questions and then proceeds to answer those questions
Metabasis
a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow; a transitional summary that links sections of writing together.
Procatalepsis:
anticipates an objection that might be raised by an audience and responds to it.
