Exposition
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism?
The most easily traded thing in a society.
What is money?
Present, Present Infinitive, Perfect, Past Participle Passive
What are the verb principal parts?
The base unit for distance in the metric system
What is a meter?
Length times width
What is the area of a rectangle?
Who spake, “I burn, I pine, I perish, if I achieve not this young modest girl”
Lucentio (Act. 1, Sc. 1)
The canon of composition by which the author orders the materials gathered in the Invention canon.
What is arrangement?
Reducing the value of a coin by reducing the amount of precious metal in it.
What is debasing?
Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive
What are the verb moods?
The process by which water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane trap heat that radiates from the earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
Any number that cannot be written as a quotient of intergers.
What is an irrational number?
Who spake, “Why, gentleman, you do me double wrong.”
Bianca (Act 3, Sc. 1)
A rhetorical trope in which a vowel sound is repeated in adjacent or closely connected words.
What is assonance?
The speed at which money changes hands.
What is velocity?
R, ris, tur, mur, mini, ntur
What are the passive verb endings?
The fact that every experiment contains errors
What is experimental error?
One part in 100
What is percent?
What is a knave?
A tricky, deceitful fellow
A statement of proposition defended by an essay.
What is a thesis?
An IOU, usually of several years or decades
What is a bond?
Expresses the purpose of the action in the main clause, and so, like an adverb, modifies the main verb
What is a purpose clause?
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences
What is heat?
The number that tells how many cubic units are contained in a geometric solid
What is volume?
What does “froward” mean?
Perverse
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of subsequent clauses, lines, or sentences
What is anaphora?
The price for renting money. When the supply of money is less than the demand, these rates rise.
What is interest?
The noun case which expresses accompaniment or association.
What is ablative of accompaniment?
A description of the speed and direction of a moving object
What is velocity?
In statistics, the difference between the largest number and the smallest number in a set of numbers
What is a range?
What is meant by “give me leave”?
Permit me to continue