FREE ACADEMIC VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES

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FREE ACADEMIC VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES

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Question 1: 24. dialogue

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a conversation between characters

Question 2: 51. litotes

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(opposite of hyperbole) an understatement usually through a form of negation.

Question 3: 6. anaphora

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repetition when it is specifically used at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

Question 4: 50. literal language

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uses words in their ordinary senses (the opposite of figurative language)

Question 5: 84. style

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a writer's distinctive mode of expression

Question 6: 90. theme

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a central message or insight into life revealed throughout the literary work

Question 7: 32. epitaph

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an inscription used to mark burial places.

Question 8: 58. motif

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a simple device that serves as a basis for an expanded narrative . . . The motif is a recurring feature in the work.

Question 9: 62. omniscient narrator

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an all-knowing 3rd person narrator . . . This type of narrator can reveal to readers what the characters think and feel.

Question 10: 12. apposition

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the placing next to a noun another noun or phrase that explains it.

Question 11: 18. climax

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when a writer arranges ideas in order of importance

Question 12: 40. homily

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• a form of oral religious instruction given by a minister to a church congregation (It usually gives

practical moral counsel rather than discussion of doctrine.)

Question 13: 93. tongue-in-cheek

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characterized by insincerity, irony, whimsy. If you say something tongue-in-cheek, what you have said is humorous, perhaps sarcastic, although at face value it appears to be serious.

Question 14: 65. paradox

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a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but that expresses the truth.

Question 15: 56. monologue

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a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem in which he/she has listeners who do not speak

Question 16: 68. pathetic fallacy

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a form of personification where huma traits are attributed to nature or inanimate objects.

Question 17: 27. dramatic irony

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a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true

Question 18: 30. epiphany

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a sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood

Question 19: 92. tone

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the writer's attitude toward his/her audience and subject

Question 20: 72. pun

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a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike.

Question 21: 82. situational irony

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an event occurs that directly contrasts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience.

Question 22: 19. connotation

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the set of associations that occur to people when they hear or read a word.

Question 23: 91. third person narrator

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the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character

Question 24: 85. suspense

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a feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work

Question 25: 2. allegory

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a story in which objects, characters, and actions are symbols of something outside the narrative.

Question 26: 10. aphorism

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a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words.

Question 27: 59. motivation

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the reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior

Question 28: 49. juxtaposition

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a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another