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Business English
Business English - English 4 class ~ November 2017
Question | Answer |
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1. Soliloquy | a long speech in a play or in a prose work made by a character who is alone and thus revels private thoughts and feelings to the audience or reader |
2. Epic | a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero |
3. Irony | the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
4. Verbal Irony | when words are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning |
5. Situational irony | when an event occurs that directly contradicts expectations |
6. Analogy | an extended comparison of relationships |
7. Parallelism | similar ideas expressed in similar grammatical forms |
8. Repetition | the repeating of key words and concepts |
9. Rhetorical devices | special patterns of language. Used to make ideas memorable and to stir emotions |
10. Imagery | the descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences |
11. Prophetic essay | when writer makes bold, systematic predictions |
12. Prophetic essay | may give warnings against complacency or pride |
13. Prophetic essay | a brief work of non-fiction |
14. Prophetic essay | makes predictions about the future of a large collective |
15. Prophetic essay | uses memorable phrases to impress predictions on readers' memories or to reinforce warnings |
16. Social criticism/commentary | writing that offers insight into society, its values, and its customs |
17. Novel | an extended work of fiction that often has a complicated plot many major and minor characters, a unifying theme, and several settings |
18. Satire | writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or groups |
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