Vocabulary Quiz #16

a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view

• personification
• plagiarism
• perspective
• paraphrase

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

• stereotype
• slang
• superlative
• resolution

a prose story relating personal experience usually told in first person

• perspective
• personal narrative
• persuasion
• paraphrase

all the problems in the story are resolved, and the story is brought to a close

• rhythm
• superlative
• resolution
• recurring theme

a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal

• superlative
• persuasion
• stereotype
• slang

a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

• meter
• mechanics
• metaphor
• rhythm

a type of writing designed to change the way a reader or listener thinks or acts

• personal narrative
• persuasion
• paraphrase
• slang

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles

• slang
• personification
• metaphor
• simile

a restatement of speech or writing that retains the basic meaning while changing the words

• plagiarism
• persuasion
• personification
• paraphrase

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

• personification
• plagiarism
• paraphrase
• perspective