Context Clues Multiple Choice Questions

What does "eloquence" refer to in communication?

• A poem of serious reflection

• Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing

• Twisted to one side, crooked

• Formal and dignified

How would you use the term "instill" in a sentence?

• Bold and determined speaking

• To summon forth gradually

• To introduce gradually in order to establish securely

• To continue to stay; delay leaving

How would you use the term "strew" in a sentence?

• Twisted to one side, crooked

• Spread by scattering

• Bold and determined

• To do something lawfully

Define the verb "linger" in the context of behavior.

• To summon forth

• Without reduction in intensity

• To continue to stay; delay leaving

• Spread by scattering

What does it mean to "dispel" something?

• To summon forth

• To coax or persuade through flattery

• Do away with, cancel, erase

• Spread by scattering

How would you describe someone who is "sullen"?

• Formal and dignified

• Bold and determined

• Bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy

• Wisely cautious

What is the characteristic of a literary "elegy"?

• Bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy

• Formal and dignified

• A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

• Bold and determined

What does "solemn" mean in terms of behavior?

• Spread by scattering

• Without any reduction in intensity

• Formal and dignified; serious and grave

• To coax or persuade through flattery

How would you define the verb "evoke"?

• To coax or persuade through flattery

• Spread by scattering

• To summon forth

• To stand for; to represent

What is the meaning of the verb "cajole"?

• To introduce gradually

• To coax or persuade through flattery

• To come together from different directions

• Without reduction in intensity