ENGLISH GED TEST EXAM QUESTIONS

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ENGLISH GED TEST EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans - Expert- Explanation - ing score -46 Questions and Answers

-Format: Multiple-choice / Flashcard

Question 1: parallelism

Answer:

successive grammatical construction in verbs, phrases, or sounds

Question 2: others

Answer:

refers to a group of people

Question 3: oversimplification

Answer:

reduces complexity to simplicity

Question 4: abstract nouns

Answer:

These have no physical existence. They refer to ideas, emotions and concepts you cannot see, touch,

hear, smell, or taste. Example: love, time, fear, freedom

Question 5: rhetoric

Answer:

persuasive writtingor speaking

Question 6: evidence

Answer:

facts, statistics, and corroborating examples

Question 7: false cause

Answer:

if A comes before B, A must have caused .

Question 8: Red Herring

Answer:

A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion

Question 9: pathos

Answer:

emotional

Question 10: Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

Answer:

if only thinking

Question 11: complex question

Answer:

phrasing of a question that masks a more basic question.

Question 12: false analogy

Answer:

this is an argument that A is bad (or good) because it is like B.

Question 13: possessive

Answer:

add 's

Question 14: analogy

Answer:

comparison between two things

Question 15: Appeal to pity

Answer:

misused emotional appeal seeking to manipulate the audience.

Question 16: logos

Answer:

logic

Question 17: plural

Answer:

add s

Question 18: juxtaposition

Answer:

an act or instance of placing items side by side

Question 19: Ad Hominem

Answer:

a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute

Question 20: misuse humor

Answer:

Funny at first, but then deeply critical

Question 21: Transitional words

Answer:

Words that connect one idea to another (ex: afterward,however, no doubt, etc)

Question 22: concrete noun

Answer:

A thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted

Question 23: proper nouns

Answer:

used to name a specific person, place, or thing. These begin with a capital letter. Examples: Sarah, Los Angelas, Mars, Cafe Río

Question 24: claim

Answer:

the argument presented

Question 25: Bare Assertion

Answer:

to deny an issue exists

Question 26: connotative definition

Answer:

an idea associated with the word, or secondary meaning)

Question 27: Appeal to ignorance

Answer:

this suggests that because no one has proven the argument wrong

Question 28: figurative meaning

Answer:

how the word is a substitue for something else

Question 29: Bandwagon Mentality

Answer:

this is the implication that something can or cannot be true because the majority of people believe one way or another

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