APLANG First Semester Vocabulary 2016-2017

Question 1

Statement that does not logically follow another.

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Non-sequitur

Question 2

"wise fool"

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Oxymoron

Question 3

What in the world are you doing hanging out with him?

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Interrogative sentence

Question 4

A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause.

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Complex Sentence

Question 5

Ethos

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Ethical Appeal

Question 6

When your teacher wants you to run a mile in eight minutes, but calls it a "walk in the park".

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Verbal Irony

Question 7

"against the man"; appeals to emotion rather than reason

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Ad hominem

Question 8

a form of allusion; uses exaggerated imitations; Saturday Night Live

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Parody

Question 9

Johnny spent hours sneaking into the movies. Only to find out kids were admitted free.

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Situational Irony

Question 10

You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without getting a job.

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Paradox

Question 11

The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes.

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Style

Question 12

the central idea or message

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Theme

Question 13

a way to mock or ridicule something

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Sarcasm

Question 14

type of argumentation having the additional aim of urging some form of action

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Persuasive writing

Question 15

A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect.

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Satire

Question 16

A watched pot never boils.

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Aphorism

Question 17

placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison

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Juxtaposition

Question 18

Language that describes specific, observable things.

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Concrete Language

Question 19

Kick the ball now!

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Imperative sentence

Question 20

the deliberate omission of a word

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Ellipsis

Question 21

Redefining your argument so that it no longer conflicts with the valid claim of the opposition.

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Qualification

Question 22

To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

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Inference/infer

Question 23

contains one independent clause

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Simple Sentence

Question 24

Prose, poetry, drama (autobiography, biography, essays)

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Genre

Question 25

contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses

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Compound Sentence

Question 26

contains two or more independent clauses and at least on dependent clause

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Compound-Complex Sentence

Question 27

follows a linking verb; My dog is fat, slow, and shaggy.

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Predicate adjective

Question 28

observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning

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Pedantic

Question 29

The audience knows who the killer is, but the victim-to-be has no idea who it is.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 30

The sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose.

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Thesis

Question 31

An author's stance that distances himself from personal involvement.

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Objectivity

Question 32

grammatical arrangement of words

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Syntax

Question 33

The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice.

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Mood

Question 34

An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

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Allusion

Question 35

Language or dialect of a particular country; language or dialect of a clan or group

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Vernacular

Question 36

The ocean roared in anger at the ship and its crew.

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Personification

Question 37

presenting something as less significant than it is

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Understatement

Question 38

When we finally needed gas, there wasn't a station for a thousand miles."

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Hyperbole

Question 39

a comparison using like or as

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Simile

Question 40

renames the subject; My dog is mutt with character.

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Predicate nominative

Question 41

Pathos

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Emotional Appeal

Question 42

Characters, things, or events represent qualities or concepts

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Allegory

Question 43

A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral.

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Didactic

Question 44

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.

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Anaphora

Question 45

A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language.

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Tone

Question 46

Darkness/light

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Antithesis

Question 47

The art of effective communication

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Rhetoric

Question 48

A word group that contains both a subject and a verb, but cannot stand alone

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Subordinate Clause

Question 49

Metaphors and similes are examples.

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Figurative Language

Question 50

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age..

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Parallelism

Question 51

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or abstraction.

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Apostrophe

Question 52

the whale in Moby Dick

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Symbol

Question 53

LOGOS-- reasoning based on logic

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Logical reasoning

Question 54

When the writer musters relevant opposing arguments.

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Refutation

Question 55

vertically challenged/short

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Euphemism

APLANG First Semester Vocabulary 2016-2017

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APLANG First Semester Vocabulary 2016-2017

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