Vocab Quiz #3

Question 1

grisly

Answer 1

inspiring horror or intense fear

EX: the town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes

Question 2

sedition

Answer 2

treason; rebel against authority
used as “____ was an act of sedition”
EX: breaking the law

Question 3

anathematize

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

nefarious

Answer 4

flagrantly wicked; evil
they are bad and they want you to know it
EX: Pirate

Question 5

tenet

Answer 5

an opinion, principle, belief, which a person holds or maintains true
EX: the amendments

Question 6

petulant

Answer 6

rude in speech or behavior

Question 7

virtuoso

Answer 7

someone who has great skill in something

EX: virtuoso violinist

Question 8

redoubtable

Answer 8

arrousing fear or alarm

worthy of respect or horror

Question 9

idyll

Answer 9

a simple descriptive work
light hearted poem or book about nature
EX: Tom Sawyer book(light hearted care free natural setting)

Question 10

epithet

Answer 10

a nickname
negative nickname
bad connotation

Question 11

magnanimous

Answer 11

generous with courage

Question 12

impervious

Answer 12

not allowing entrance or passage

EX: Raincoat

Question 13

Question-Begging Epithet

Answer 13

Calls someone a name that implies a quality or fact that is not proved

Question 14

Equivocation

Answer 14

Changes the meaning of a word or phrase in mid-discussion

Question 15

Appeal to Emotions

Answer 15

Manipulates agreement by way of emotion instead of cogent reason

Question 16

Special Pleading

Answer 16

Colors the language according to the arguers’ perspective

Question 17

Amphiboly

Answer 17

Exploits grammatical ambiguity with the syntax to lead to a false or questionable conclusion.
EX: Slow children crossing

Question 18

Complex Question

Answer 18

Asks a question that assumes and so corners its respondent

Question 19

Parallelism

Answer 19

repeated grammatical form

Question 20

Metonymy

Answer 20

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.”)

Question 21

Personification

Answer 21

metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes—

Question 22

Polysyndeton

Answer 22

the use of conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause for the purpose of sounding deliberate or heavily labored; structurally the opposite of asyndeton

Question 23

Metanoia

Answer 23

the act of correcting one’s self to create a rhetorical effect.

Question 24

Praeteritio

Answer 24

calling attention to a point by seeming to dismiss or ignore it

Question 25

Irony

Answer 25

a statement whose hidden meaning is different from its surface meaning; a conclusion opposite from expectation

Question 26

Hypophora

Answer 26

asks one or more questions and then proceeds to answer those questions

Question 27

Metabasis

Answer 27

a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow; a transitional summary that links sections of writing together.

Question 28

Procatalepsis:

Answer 28

anticipates an objection that might be raised by an audience and responds to it.