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English Language Terminology Review Resources

Prepare for the final exam with review questions on tone, figures of speech, schemes, and tropes. Identify key concepts with clicker activities.

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English Language Terminology Review Resources

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  1. Final Exam Review Clicker Activity

  2. Which tone word means “angry because of an injustice”? • Choleric • Indignant • Insipid • Sardonic

  3. Which tone word means bitter? • Lugubrious • Acerbic • Stolid • Pedantic

  4. Which of the following would be the best example of litotes? • I have a ton of work to do. • It only hurt a little bit. • I will die if I can’t have that car.

  5. Which of the following words would likely be used for its connotative meaning? • Childhood • Coffee • Rose • Boots

  6. I was excited because it was Friday. • Simple • Compound • Complex • Compound-Complex

  7. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. • Anaphora • Asyndeton • Antithesis • A and C • All of the above

  8. An allusion is… • Repeating the first consonant sound • A reference to something • Two contrasting ideas • A noun followed by a modifier

  9. Which of the following is NOT a scheme? • Anaphora • Asyndeton • Litotes • Antimetabole

  10. The quiet sound of the bells drifted over soft piles of snow. • Apposition • Imagery • Allusion • Ethos

  11. Which scheme or trope is often used during a speech? • Polysyndeton • Anaphora • Apposition • Antithesis • Synecdoche

  12. Ms. Ratliff cried softly, disappointed that she had not won the finger-painting contest. • Compound • Periodic • Loose • Compound-Complex

  13. Wishing for a miracle, the parents drove to the hospital. • Periodic • Loose • Complex • Compound

  14. Antithesis is defined as.. • Juxtaposing two contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure • Flipping the grammatical structure of a sentence • Repeating successive clauses

  15. Common language relative to a particular group of people is called… • Colloquial • Jargon • Denotative • Connotative

  16. Participant Leaders

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