Vocab For Final

Question 0

Monosyllabic

Answer 0

One syllable words, less effective,

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

Word choice or General character of the language used by the author

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

The strict meaning in the dictionary

Question 3

Meliorative

Answer 3

Positive influence or connection

Question 4

Pejorative

Answer 4

Negative influence or connection

Question 5

Cheap vs inexpensive

Answer 5

Both have same meaning but different meanings in society and different impacts

Question 6

Pedestrian

Answer 6

Commonplace, dull, laments terms

Question 7

Vulgarity

Answer 7

Cuss words, bad language, do not use

Question 8

Slang

Answer 8

Uses vernacular, made up words

Question 9

Vernacular

Answer 9

Native dialect

Question 10

Colloquial

Answer 10

Related to usual or informal

Question 11

Jargon

Answer 11

Language specific to a field or position

Question 12

Anecdote

Answer 12

A short account do an interesting or humorous story

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

Appeal based on character of speaker, ethics

Question 14

Logos

Answer 14

Appeal based on logic and reason, logical

Question 15

Pathos

Answer 15

Appeal based on emotion pathological

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

The reparation of a word in a clause or sentence

Question 17

Epistrophe

Answer 17

The repitstion of a word at the end of a sentence

Question 18

Asyndeton

Answer 18

The omission of a conjunction

Question 19

Antithesis

Answer 19

a person or thing with the direct opposite

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which a part is made into a whole

Question 21

Enumeration

Answer 21

Mention one by one, no space to enumerate

Question 22

Parallelism

Answer 22

The state of being parallel or corresponding in some way

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

Giving human characteristics and attributes to an inanimate object

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

Compares to things without like or as

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

Compares two things using like or as

Question 26

Metonymy

Answer 26

The substitution of a name for one of its attributes

Question 27

Climax

Answer 27

The most intense, exciting or important part if something

Question 28

polysyndenton

Answer 28

Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. Example: They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

Question 29

Toulmin method of argument

Answer 29

Claim- the conclusion of an argument Grounds- facts and data used to prove and validate a claim Warrant- the reasoning why the grounds are being made Backing support- additional support, qualifiers for the warren Rebuttal- exceptions or limitations

Question 30

Syllogism

Answer 30

Major premise A=B , a general principle or minor claim, C=A, verify able by evidence claim, C=B conclusion

Question 31

Enthymene

Answer 31

Missing the minor claim, similar to fallacies, A=c or A=z