Reading Vocab 1
Reading Vocab 2
Syntax/Grammar
Rhetorical Terms
Random
100
filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement
Exuberant
100
the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly
Sanctity
100
Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle and The coach told the players that they should get a lot of sleep, that they should not eat too much, and that they should do some warm-up exercises before the game.
parallelism/parallel structure
100
the act of two things being seen or placed close together for contrasting effect
juxtaposition
100
a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory
paradox
200
extreme poverty
Penury
200
an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest
Cynicism
200
______ sentence contains a main clause plus a subordinate construction Example: We must be wary of conclusions drawn from the ways of the social insects, since their evolutionary track lies so far from ours.
loose sentence structure
200
reasoning from the general to the particular
deductive reasoning
200
future generations of people
posterity
300
not showing proper respect; irrelevant
Impertinent
300
a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator
Reminiscence
300
Not until the seventeenth century did the fork appear in England. and... In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
Inversion
300
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
antithesis
300
a large number of something
plenitude
400
behavior keeping with good taste and customs
Decorum
400
a scarcity or lack of something
Dearth
400
use ___ when you are talking about a person and ___ when you are talking about an object
who & that
400
a long formal letter, often intended to instruct
Epistle
400
Independent clauses can be correctly combined using... (list all)
periods, semicolons, and commas with coordinating conjunctions
500
despite everything
Maugre
500
beginning to exist or to be apparent
Incipience
500
The ________ emphasizes its main idea by placing it at the end, following all the subordinate clauses and other modifiers that support the principal idea. Example: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.
Periodic Sentence (Structure)
500
a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions
Syllogism
500
an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified)
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