new vocab

Question 1

phrase

Answer 1

a grouping of woorkds without a subject, verb, or both

Question 2

Paen

Answer 2

a song of praise or joy

Question 3

appositive

Answer 3

a word or phrase that directly follows the noun it modifies

Question 4

Obloquy

Answer 4

public condomnation

Question 5

nostalgia

Answer 5

a bittersweet longing for things of the past

Question 6

Rhapsodic

Answer 6

impassioned, enthusiastic, and extatic

Question 7

Macabre

Answer 7

suggesting the horror of death and decay

Question 8

Maudlin

Answer 8

excessively sentimental

Question 9

Imperative sentence

Answer 9

sentence that makes a command

Question 10

Laudatory

Answer 10

expressing praise

Question 11

facetious

Answer 11

playfully humorous

Question 12

epihet

Answer 12

descriptive word or phrase that stresses the dominant trait of a noun

Question 13

Gothic

Answer 13

old fashioned (sometimes to the point of being barbarous or crude)

Question 14

Idylics

Answer 14

simple, tranquil, or care free

Question 15

declarative sentence

Answer 15

sentence hat makes a statement a fact

Question 16

elegiac

Answer 16

expressing sorrow for that which is in the past

Question 17

antithesis

Answer 17

two opposing ideas presented in a parallel manner

Question 18

apostrophe

Answer 18

a poetic device in which the speaker addresses an idea or a person who is not present

Question 19

Coherent

Answer 19

following an orderly logical pattern that is easy to understand

Question 20

Subordinate

Answer 20

a group of words that contains a subject and a verb , but cant stand alone as a complete thought