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Final Exam Review. Clicker Activity. Which tone word means “angry because of an injustice”?. Choleric Indignant Insipid Sardonic. Which tone word means bitter?. Lugubrious Acerbic Stolid Pedantic. Which of the following would be the best example of litotes?.
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Final Exam Review Clicker Activity
Which tone word means “angry because of an injustice”? • Choleric • Indignant • Insipid • Sardonic
Which tone word means bitter? • Lugubrious • Acerbic • Stolid • Pedantic
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.
Which of the following words would likely be used for its connotative meaning? • Childhood • Coffee • Rose • Boots
I was excited because it was Friday. • Simple • Compound • Complex • Compound-Complex
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. • Anaphora • Asyndeton • Antithesis • A and C • All of the above
An allusion is… • Repeating the first consonant sound • A reference to something • Two contrasting ideas • A noun followed by a modifier
The quiet sound of the bells drifted over soft piles of snow. • Apposition • Imagery • Allusion • Ethos
Which of the following is NOT a scheme? • Anaphora • Asyndeton • Litotes • Antimetabole
Which scheme or trope is often used during a speech? • Polysyndeton • Anaphora • Apposition • Antithesis • Synecdoche
Ms. Ratliff cried softly, disappointed that she had not won the finger-painting contest. • Compound • Periodic • Loose • Compound-Complex
Wishing for a miracle, the parents drove to the hospital. • Periodic • Loose • Complex • Compound
Antithesis is defined as.. • Juxtaposing two contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure • Flipping the grammatical structure of a sentence • Repeating successive clauses
Informal language relative to a particular group of people is called… • Colloquial • Jargon • Denotative • Connotative