Vocab 4

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Epithet

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Facetious

Answer 3

Playfully humorous

Question 4

Elegic

Answer 4

Expressing sorrow for that which is in the past

Question 5

Gothic

Answer 5

Old fashioned to the point of being crude

Question 6

Idyllic

Answer 6

Simple, tranquil, and carefree

Question 7

Laudatory

Answer 7

Expressing praise

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

A type of understatement that asserts a point by denying its negative

Question 9

Lugubrious

Answer 9

Dismal or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated degree

Question 10

Macabre

Answer 10

Suggesting the horror of death and decay

Question 11

Maudlin

Answer 11

Excessively sentimental

Question 12

Nostalgia

Answer 12

Bitter sweet longing for things of the past

Question 13

Rhapsodic

Answer 13

In passion, enthusiastic, ecstatic

Question 14

Appositive

Answer 14

A word or phrase that directly follows the noun it modifies

Question 15

Obloquy

Answer 15

Public condemnation

Question 16

Paean

Answer 16

A song of praise or joy

Question 17

Phrase

Answer 17

A group of words without a subject, verb, or both.

Question 18

Antithesis

Answer 18

Two opposing ideas presented in a parallel manner