Ap Eng 3 Vocab/grammar Quiz 1

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Ominous

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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening

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Analysis

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The act of breaking something into parts to discover meaning

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Antecedent

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The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun

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Colloquialism

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A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically used in ordinary conversation

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Deduce

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To assume, infer, or conclude by logical inference

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Noun

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A person, place, thing, or idea

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Adjective

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Modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers which one? What kind? How many? Or whose? (All possessive words and the articles a, an, and the are this part of speech)

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Pronoun

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Takes the place of a noun or a group of nouns

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Allusion

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Brief reference in one piece of art to another piece of art

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Posit

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Put forward as a basis or argument, suggest

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Dialect

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A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

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Ellipsis

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The omission of a word or words that are superfluous or understood from contextual clues (replaced by ...)

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Genre

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A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature

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Verb

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States the action or state of being. Can change tense (conjugate)

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Adverb

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Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Often end in -ly. Answer when? Where? How? Or to what extent?

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exultant

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triumphantly happy

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jargon

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special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand

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juxtaposition

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placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison.

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parallelism

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sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns

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parenthetical idea

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parenthesis are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence.

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preposition

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shows the relationship between a noun in the sentence and another noun or group of nouns (position, location, time)0

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Plagiarism

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The act of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as ones own

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Active voice

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The subject of the sentence performs the action. This is a more direct and preferred style of writing in most cases. Ex: Anthony drove while Toni searched for the house.

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Passive voice

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When the subject of the sentence receives the action. Ex: the car was driven by Anthony. It is often overused, resulting in lifeless writing.

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Fallacy

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An attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning

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Scathing

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Witheringly scornful; severely critical

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Conjunction

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Connects words or groups of words

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Interjection

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Expresses strong emotion (usually comes at the beginning of a sentence)

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Ad hominem

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Latin for “against the man.” Personally attacking your opponents instead of their arguments; an argument that appeals to motion rather than reason, feeling rather than intellect.

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Bandwagon

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The claim, as evidence for an idea, that many people believe it, or used to believe it, or do it.

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Cliche

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A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

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Acrimonious

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Bitter, harsh, caustic

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Irreverent

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Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously