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Schekkan English mid
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ambiguous | Open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning. |
| Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. |
| Argument | a statement, reason, or fact for or against a point |
| Arrogant | making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official. |
| Assertion | a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason: a mere assertion; an unwarranted assertion. |
| Authority | the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine. |
| Backing | aid or support of any kind. |
| Cause & effect | The cause is the reason something happens, and the effect is what happens as a result. |
| Claim | to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance |
| Cliche | a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox. |
| Connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.” Compare denotation |
| Denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it |
| Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction. |
| Digression | a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing. |
| Ethos | the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion. |
| Facts | something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact. |
| Hypocrisy | a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess. |
| Inference | the process of arriving at some conclusion that, though it is not logically derivable from the assumed premises, possesses some degree of probability relative to the premises. |
| Juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
| Logos | |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| Pathos | |
| Resigned | submissive or acquiescent. |
| Rhetoric | the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. |
| Rhetorical question | a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as “What is so rare as a day in June?” |
| Ridicule | 1. NOUN speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision. verb (used with object) 2.VERB to deride; make fun of. |
| Skepticism | skeptical attitude or temper; doubt. |
| Slanting | to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope. |
| Statistics | the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and regularity on aggregates of more or less disparate elements. |
| Syntax | a system or orderly arrangement. |
| Tone | an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech. |
| Alliteration | the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid. |
| Allusion | a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. |
| Analogy | a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. |
| Anecdote | a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. |
| Condescending | showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: They resented the older neighbors' condescending cordiality. |
| Didactic | intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. |
| Dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
| Dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation. |
| Epithet | any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality |
| Historical Narrative | |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile |
| Nostalgic | experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation. |
| Parallel structure | |
| Passive | not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling. |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. |
| Primary source | first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life. |
| Ridicule | speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision. |
| Secondary Source | next after the first in order, place, time, etc. |
| Skepticism | skeptical attitude or temper; doubt. |
| Soliloquy | an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts |
| Tactful | having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply. |
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