Vocabulary Quiz (Ch. 1 from vocab book and 2 from LOC)

Question 1

admonish

Answer 1

to warn, to caution

Question 2

advocate

Answer 2

to recommend; to speak in favor of

Question 3

affiliate

Answer 3

an associate, partner

Question 4

affliction

Answer 4

anything causing great suffering

Question 5

adjunct

Answer 5

a subordinate; an assistant

added or connected in a dependent or subordinate manner

Question 6

aghast

Answer 6

feeling great dismay or horror

Question 7

alacrity

Answer 7

liveliness; willingness; eagerness

Question 8

alienate

Answer 8

to make others unfriendly toward you

Question 9

allude

Answer 9

to hint at; to refer to indirectly

Question 10

alliteration

Answer 10

repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence

Question 11

allusion

Answer 11

brief reference to a person, event, or place

Question 12

anaphora

Answer 12

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases

Question 13

antimetabole

Answer 13

repetition of words in reverse order

Question 14

antithesis

Answer 14

opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction

Question 15

archaic diction

Answer 15

old fashioned or outdated choice of words

Question 16

asyndeton

Answer 16

omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Question 17

cumulative sentence

Answer 17

sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on

Question 18

hortative sentence

Answer 18

sentence that calls to action

Question 19

imperative sentence

Answer 19

sentence used to command or enjoin

Question 20

inversion

Answer 20

inverted order of words in a sentence

Question 21

juxtaposition

Answer 21

placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

Question 22

metaphor

Answer 22

figure of speech that compares two thing without using like or as

Question 23

oxymoron

Answer 23

paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 24

parallelism

Answer 24

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 25

periodic sentence

Answer 25

sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Question 26

personification

Answer 26

attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea

Question 27

rhetorical question

Answer 27

figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Question 28

synedoche

Answer 28

figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

Question 29

zeugma

Answer 29

use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meainings

Question 30

aloof

Answer 30

reserved, distance