Week 13 Vocabulary Review/Pre-Quiz

What is an Inference?

• a researched answer

• a guess based on evidence and reasoning

• a literary device in which vowel sounds are repeated

• a type of conflict between two characters

What is the difference between Implicit and Explicit meaning?

• Implicit meaning is directly stated while Explicit meaning is not directly stated.

• Explicit meaning is directly stated while Implicit meaning is not directly stated.

Ambiguity means...

• the references to famous people or places in history or literature

• the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds

• the explicitly stated meaning found in literature

• the implied or unclear meaning found in literature

What is an author's perspective?

• the author's attitudes, values, or opinions that influence the representation of a topic

• The first person or third person narrator of a story or novel

• the feelings that the author wants his/her audience to have while reading

A literary device in which words are used in a way which implies the opposite of their literal meaning is called...

• Implicit

• Foreshadow

• Irony

• Allusion

Which word means to bestow or leave by will; hand down or pass on?

• bequeath

• blanch

• defray

• impending

• indiscreetly

Which word means about to happen, imminent, approaching?

• bequeath

• blanch

• defray

• impending

• indiscreetly

Which word means to make white or pale, bleach, whiten?

• bequeath

• blanch

• defray

• impending

• indiscreetly

Which word means in a way that is lacking in prudence or good judgment?

• bequeath

• blanch

• defray

• impending

• indiscreetly

Which word means to offset the cost of; to reimburse, pay?

• bequeath

• blanch

• defray

• impending

• indiscreetly