Summer Reading Vocabulary Quiz

Match each word to the correct definition.

• allegory

• an idea or situation that can be understood in more than one way

• abstract language

• refers to intangible qualities, ideas, and concepts

• analogy

• a reference to something else

• allusion

• a story within a story

• ambiguity

• two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities

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• apostrophe

• a rhetorical device where a speaker addresses someone or something that is not present, dead, or inanimate

• anecdote

• a pithy observation that contains a general truth

• aphorism

• a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic

• antithesis

• a literary device that involves repeating words or phrases at the beginning of multiple sentences, clauses, or phrases

• anaphora

• the opposite of a statement, concept, or idea

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• argument

• a literary device that involves reversing the order of words, grammatical structures, or concepts in a sentence or phrase

• authority

• a work of persuasion

• atmosphere

• the feeling or mood that an author creates for the reader through the use of setting, objects, and characters' thoughts

• chiasmus

• its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions

• audience

• who the author writes their piece for

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• colloquialism

• the main argument or thesis statement of an essay or paragraph

• claim

• a writing style that uses specific details and tangible characteristics to help readers understand what is being written about

• cliche

• a literary device that refers to a word or expression that is informal and common within a specific time period, geographic region, or demographic

• concrete language

• a written or spoken analysis of a text that helps readers understand its meaning, context, and themes

• commentary

• a saying, image, or idea which has been used so much that it sounds terribly uncreative

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• diction

• the quality of being trustworthy and having reputable information

• euphemism

• information that supports a claim or argument in writing

• evidence

• a writer or speaker's credibility, authority, or good character

• ethos

• polite, mild phrase which substitutes unpleasant ways of saying something sad or uncomfortable

• credibility

• word choice and phrasing in any written or spoken text

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• idiom

• a flaw in reasoning or logic that can make an argument seem unfair or incorrect, even if it seems persuasive

• figure of speech

• a word or phrase using figurative language—language that has other meaning than its normal definition

• generalization

• a phrase that conveys a figurative meaning different from the words used

• fallacy

• a broad statement about a group of people or things, and is often supported by examples

• genre

• a category of literature identified by form, content, and style

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• irony

• a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite

• mood

• the placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences

• juxtiposition

• the difference between expectations and reality

• logos

• a rhetorical device that uses logic and reasoning to appeal to an audience's sense of logic and rationality

• litotes

• the emotional response or atmosphere a piece of writing evokes in the reader

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• parallelism

• a literary device that uses language to evoke emotions in an audience to persuade them

• rhetoric

• a figure of speech that replaces words with related or associated words.

• pathos

• the ancient art of persuasion

• paradox

  oxymoron

• when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure

• metonymy

  synecdoche

• a statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time

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• satire

• a question that is not asked in order to receive an answer from the audience or reader.

• syllogism

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices

• sarcasm

• a three-part deductive argument that uses two premises to reach a conclusion

• style

• a form of verbal irony that mocks, ridicules, or expresses contempt

• rhetorical question

• the way in which an author writes and/or tells a story

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• thesis

• the feeling a writer conveys to the reader through their word choice, sentence structure, and other writing attributes

• transition

• when you use a word in a sentence once, while conveying two different meanings at the same time

• zeugma

• the sentence that introduces the main argument or point of view of a composition

• syntax

• a word or phrase that connects ideas, either within a paragraph or between paragraphs

• tone

• how words and phrases are arranged to form sentences, and it's a part of linguistics

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