Unit 10 Test

What is the sentence below an example of?

Her grandmother passed away last week.

• Chiasmus

• Parallelism

• Euphemism

• Simile

Answer explanation

Euphemism is the correct answer for the question because saying "passed away" is a polite substitution of saying "died", which comes off as harsh or unpleasant.

What is the sentence below an example of?

The bring city lights during the night is a pretty sight.

• palindrome

• assonance

• diction

• jargon

Answer explanation

The answer is assonance because of the repeating "ight" vowel sound in the words throughout the sentence.

What is the sentence below an example of?

"Let us never to negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." - John F. Kennedy

• Chiasmus

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Utopia

Answer explanation

Chiasmus is the correct answer for the question because in the sentence the second part mirrors the first in grammatical structure, words, and concepts.

What is the sentence below an example of?

I would love to get a tropical fish to put in my new fish tank.

• Satire

• Denotation

• Antithesis

• Tone

Answer explanation

Denotation is the correct answer because by saying that he wants to buy a FISH for his FISHTANK indicates the term is objective and its sense is explicitly expressed.

What is the sentence below and example of?

The house was gone. The garden in the backyard was gone. Everything was gone.

• Metaphor

• Epistrophe

• Alliteration

• Cliffhanger

Answer explanation

Epistrophe is the correct answer because the word "gone" is repeating at the end each successive clause.

What is the sentence below an example of?

He is a wise fool.

• vernacular

• parallelism

• proxemics

• oxymoron

Answer explanation

Oxymoron is the correct answer for this question because the sentence juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings (wise and fool) within a phrase that is self-contradictory.

______ is when several conjunctions are used to join connected clauses in places where they are not contextually necessary

• Kinesics

• Consonance

• Polysyndeton

• Colloquialism

_____ is the use of informal words or phrases in writing or speech-

CAN INCLUDE... aphorisms, profanity, idioms, and other words

• Motif

• Colloquialism

• Personification

• Cliche

_____ refers to the specialized language of a profession or occupational group

• Diction

• Denotation

• Slang

• Jargon

______ is an array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition

• Allegory

• Connotation

• Idiom

• Pun