VOCAB 4

Question 1

Mock serious

Answer 1

characterized by feigned or deliberately artificial seriousness, often for satirical purposes

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

the emotional tone or prevailing atmosphere created in the audience by a work of literature or other discourse

Question 3

Motif

Answer 3

a phrase, idea, or event that repeats throughout an essay or discourse to unify or convey a theme

Question 4

Objective

Answer 4

of or relating to facts and reality, as opposed to private and personal feelings and attitudes

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning

Question 6

Paradox

Answer 6

a statement that seems self-contradictory but it nevertheless true

Question 7

Parallel structure, parallelism

Answer 7

contextual, grammatical presentation of two ideas of equal rank

Question 8

Paraphrase

Answer 8

a version of a text or idea put into simpler, everyday language, or recontextualized for brevity

Question 9

Pathos

Answer 9

appealing to the audience’s emotions, usually by creating a sense of pity or sorrow

Question 10

Pedantic

Answer 10

narrowly academic instead of broad and humane; excessively petty and meticulous

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics

Question 12

Point of View

Answer 12

the relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to the subject of discourse (first, second, third person; internal, external

Question 13

Polysyndeton

Answer 13

using multiple repetitions of the same conjunction, usually and

Question 14

Realism

Answer 14

the depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration

Question 15

Rebuttal, refutation

Answer 15

the part of discourse wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and answered

Question 16

Reiteration

Answer 16

repetition of an idea using different words, often for emphasis or other effect

Question 17

Repetition

Answer 17

reuse of the same words, phrases, or ideas for rhetorical effect, usually to emphasize a point

Question 18

Rhetoric

Answer 18

the language of a work and its style; often, the use of words with strong emotional connotations used to convince or sway an audience

Question 19

Rhetorical mode

Answer 19

a general term for identifying discourse according to its chief purpose; modes include exposition, argumentation, description, narration, and others

Question 20

Rhetorical question

Answer 20

a question to which the audience already knows the answer; a question asked for effect, where the answer is irrelevant