English Page 3

Question 1

Fragment

Answer 1

A word, phrase or clause that does not form a full sentance

Question 2

Hortatory

Answer 2

Urging or strongly encouraging

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis

Question 4

Imagery

Answer 4

Vivid use of language that evokes a reader’s senses

Question 5

Imperative Sentance

Answer 5

A sentence that requests or commands

Question 6

Induction

Answer 6

Reasoning from specific to general

Question 7

Inversion

Answer 7

A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject

Question 8

juxtaposition

Answer 8

placement of two things side by side for emphasis

Question 9

logos

Answer 9

appeal to logic

Question 10

metonymy

Answer 10

use of an aspect of something to represent the whole

Question 11

modifier

Answer 11

a word the qualified that describes another word

Question 12

Nominalization

Answer 12

turning a verb or adjective into a noun

Question 13

occasion

Answer 13

an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing

Question 14

omniscient narrator

Answer 14

an all knowing usually third person narrator

Question 15

oxymoron

Answer 15

a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms

Question 16

pacing

Answer 16

the relative speed or slowness in which a story is presented

Question 17

paradox

Answer 17

a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true

Question 18

paralellism

Answer 18

the repitition of similar grammatical or syntatical pattersn

Question 19

parody

Answer 19

a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another

Question 20

pathos

Answer 20

appeal to emotion

Question 21

periodic sentence

Answer 21

a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause

Question 22

persona

Answer 22

the speaker voice or character assumed by the author

Question 23

polemic

Answer 23

an argument against an idea