Midterms
First person
A character with his or her opinions
Metaphor
A comparison of two different things without using "like" or "as"
Simile
A comparison of two or more things using "like" or "as"
Audit, dialogue
A comprehensive ______ of several major power companies led to an open ______ between consumers and company executives.
Foreshadowing
A hint beforehand
Idiom
A phrase or expression which means something different from what the words actually say
Malapropism
A silly misuse of words especially through confusion caused by resemblance in sound
Proactive, allegations
A spokesman for the company, in an attempt to be ______, denied _____ of tax fraud before they were made public.
Genre
A type of literature
Character words
Absorbed, easygoing, aggresive
Style words
Abstract, complex, precise
A
Adjectives
A
Adverb
Quickly
Adverb
Elucidated, prospect
After George ____ his plan, the ____ of climbing the mountain became more appealing to me.
Subjects and verbs
Agree
A
Alliteration
Improvise, invidious
Although the actor thought he did an excellent job _____ his lines, he received several ____ reviews the next day.
Superlative, repulsion
Although the movie was called _____ in reviews, some of the more violent scenes prompted ____ in audience members
Disposition, adept
Amy's naturally friendly ____ made her ___ at handling social situations.
Personification
An idea, animal, or object given characteristics of a person
No fragment
And no run-on
Replete, suffused
At the sight of an office ______ with medicines and medical instruments, the young country doctor was ____ with delight.
Syntax words
Balanced sentence, Declarative
Confound, abstain
Because the policies of both candidates ____ Darah, she may _____ from voting in the next election.
Clear
Beginning, middle, and end
Intro
Captures reader's attention
Imposing, reform
Carrie believes that, rather than____ harsh sentences on violators of the law, we should try to ____ criminals and bring them back into society.q
Verb tense is
Consistent
C
Conversation plus
Lucid, specter
Daria was so upset that she could not provide a ______ explanation of her encounter with the ______ in the old mansion
Mood words
Dark, haunting
Aptitude, positing
Darnell, who had a natural _____ for science, enjoyed ______ new theories to the other staff in the department.
Irony
Disdainful,
No
Double negatives
Understatement
Downplaying a situation
E
Emotion
Circumspect, translucent
Even my modest, ____ grandma became as excited as a child when she saw the ____ white silk with which we would make the dress.
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration
Neutral
Formal, ceremonial, clinical
Anger
Furious, cynical
Negative tone
Furious, fearful
Implement, inhibit
Good animal trainers know that they can ____ rules that will not _____ an animals personality.
Tone words
Harsh, gloomy, dreamy
Positive tone
Hopeful, lighthearted, cheery
Analogous, disenchanted
I hardly think Mary's deep unhappiness with her current job is _______ to the times she has been _____ with a job in the past.
Sustain, prohibit
In order to ____ good working relationships between employees, companies often ____ office romances.
Diction words
Informal/low, slang, conversational
Main topic
Is clear
Adept, formative
Jeff was not _____ at painting because his hand was injured during a ____ period of his life.
Third Person
Know several characters feelings and opinions
M
Metaphor
Affable, invoked
My once-______ and easygoing neighbor now ______ every curse she could think on me.
Pronouncement, infantile
None of my father's ______ on my behavior could prevent my ______tantrums whenever I didn't get what I wanted.
Edict, provocative
One _____ issued by the Church forbade _____ dress among women.
O
Onomatopoeia
Antonym
Opposite word meaning
Oxymoron
Opposite word or phrases put together to form a new phrase
Exacting, agenda
Our boss is so ___ that everything must be perfect before we can move on to a new item on the ______.
P
Personification
Alliteration
Repeating beginning constant sounds
Misinformation, effigy
Rumors and ____ spread by King Paul's enemies finally prompted the crowd to burn a ____ of him in front of the palace.
Sarcasm
Sarcastic, mock-serious
Fear
Scared, concerned
S
Senses
S
Simile
Worry
Stressed, concerned
Conclusion
Sums up writing effectivly
Details and examples
Support main idea
Providential, phototropic
The ____ discovery of a new ____ organism helped researchers, who were doing work on light and biology, make a long desired breakthrough.
Dispel, legacy
The general tried to _____ the sorrows of his troops by praising the _____ of the fallen heroes.
Pun
The humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two more of its meaning
Indict, renounce
The jury felt it necessary to _____ the reporter for refusing to ______ his slanderous remarks.
Retinue, suffuse
The large ____ that followed the rock star could _____ him with a sense of personal strength and importance.
Dissonance, auditory
The noisy city's ____ would create a _____ disturbance for a person with even limited hearing ability.
Dictum, renounce
The rabbi hoped the _____ he cited would convince people to ______ their bad habits.
Second person
The story is told from the perspective of you
Prologue, resonant
The words of the _____ were still _____ in my mind long after the play had ended.
Fantasy
Unreal story
Adverbs
Usually end in ly
V
Vivid words
Colorful
Vocabulary.
Inaudible, recant
Whatever the deputy whispered to the Chief Police was _____ to the audience, but it made the chief ____ his statement and apologize.
Paradox
When ideas conflict but make sense
Relative, delegates
Whether the team succeeds or not is ____ to whether the captain _____ some of his authority or keeps it all to himself.
Humor
Whimsical, amused
Homophone
Words that are pronounced alike but differ in meaning and spelling
Homograph
Words that are spelled alike but have a different meaning, or pronunciation
Homonym
Words that are spelled and pronounced alike but have different meanings
Onomatopoeia
Words which imitate the sounds they stand for
Synonym
Words with nearly the same meaning
Interesting
Writing