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Jan 27 VOCAB QUIZ

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

ANALYSE A LITERARY WORK VERY THOROUGHLY

a)

EXURGATE

b)

EXPLICATE

c)

EXONERATE

d)

EXFOLIATE

2.

TO REMOVE PASSAGES FROM A TEXT

a)

EXURGATE

b)

EXPLICATE

c)

EXAGERATE

d)

EMILIORATE

3.

A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR A POET OR WRITER IS USUALLY IN THE FORM OF A FEMALE DEITY.

a)

Mode

b)

Model

c)

Muse

d)

Minsch

4.

Study the picture. What is the best choice for this style?

a)

Jazz Age

b)

Baroque

c)

Barbarism

d)

Elizabethan

5.

TO BE OPEN TO DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS

a)

AMBITIOUS

b)

AMBIGUITY

c)

AMBIDEXTEROUS

d)

AMENABLE

6.

A STOCK CHARACTER IN A GREEK PLAY

a)

BRAGGADACIO

b)

EIRON

c)

NORIE

d)

REIRON

7.

WHICH ARE EXAMPLES OF SYNEDOCHE

a)

MONARCH/THE QUEEN

b)

FACULTY/

TEACHERS

c)

ADMINISTRATION/PRINCIPAL

d)

CLERGY/

PREACHERS

8.

SYNECDOCHE is a figure of speech by which something is referred to indirectly.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

THE WAY IN WHICH WORDS AND CLAUSES ARE ORDERED AND CONNECTED.

a)

SYMBOLISM

b)

SYNECDOCHE

c)

SYNTAX

d)

RUBRICS

10.

VERISIMILITUDE

a)

the truth or reality in a literary work.

b)

the fantasy in a literary work

c)

the context of a literary work

d)

a particular genre of literary work

11.

THE USE OF UNNECESSARY ADDITIONAL WORDS AND NEEDLESS REPETITION

a)

PLEBIAN

b)

PLEASM

c)

PLEBOT

d)

PLEONASM

12.

A DIETY IS A GOD OR GODDESS

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

AN IMPLIED MEANING RATHER THAN WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID

a)

SUBTEXT

b)

DENOTATION

c)

IDIOM

d)

SYMBOLIC

14.

"So, I went and had to go to the doctor to get a shot. The doctor told the nurse to give me the shot so the nurse came in to give me a shot."

this is an example of what?

a)

STUPIDY

b)

PLEONASM

c)

PROOFING

d)

VERISIMILITUDE

15.

In the south, when someone is not very happy with you, they say "Bless your heart." It's not actually what they meant. This is an example of what?

a)

syntax

b)

subtext

c)

colloquialism

d)

allusion

16.

When reading The Great Gatsby, we answered many questions, took multiple tests, had group activities, studied era-specific vocabulary, and learned about The Jazz Age. This is an example of what?

a)

eiron

b)

explication

c)

expurgation

d)

elocution