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CLEP College Composition
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting
satire
simple sentence
doggerel
truism
2. Descriptive language to evoke the senses
concrete
digress
participle
imagery
3. Combines a compound sentence with a complex sentence
generality organization
understatement
capital
compound complex sentence
4. An indirect attack or insinuation
innuendo
masculine rhyme
parallel structure
fact
5. Verb used to express conditional or counterfactual statements - i.e. 'If I were rich'
burlesque
accordingly
colloquial
subjunctive
6. A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply
assonance
rhetorical question
hypothetic example
subordinate conjunction
7. Essay that presents information in order of occurrence - or sequence of events
candor
ellipsis
chronological organization
epithalamium
8. Main idea of an essay - what the writer hope to prove is true
thesis
fallacy
rebuttal
assonance
9. Refers to the way the writer lets readers know what will be discussed - a framing statement gives the reader some sense of what to expect
pathos
framing
fiction
oxymoron
10. Drawing conclusions from insufficient evidence
participle
subjunctive
assertion
over generalization
11. Lines rhymed by their final two syllables - i.e. running and gunning
second person
third person omniscient
participle
feminine rhyme
12. Basically an 'either or' situation - typically a moral decision
ethos
dilemma
apostrophe
innuendo
13. Acronym for basic elements of nonfictional text - speaker - occasion - audience - purpose - subject - tone
third person omniscient
epithet
participle
soapstone
14. The main character who opposes the protagonist - usually the villain
protagonist
ironic commentary
subordinate conjunction
antagonist
15. Essay that presents information in order of importance - either most important to least important or vice versa
metaphor
anecdote
emphatic organization
vocative
16. Neoclassical principles of drama
accordingly
second person
footnote
decorum
17. Helping verb (often be - have - or do) - i.e. 'I am working on it'
ellipsis
Auxiliary verb
rhetorical question
indicative
18. The work is narrated by the person 'I' - who can also be the protagonist - omniscient speaker. There can be multiple narrators of the same work
first person
verb phrase
pastoral elegy
Italian rhyme
19. Condemn by seeming to offer praise - ie 'well - I could not have done better myself'
third person omniscient
damn with faint praise
generality organization
syntax
20. One of many prepositions
wit
under
abstraction
diction
21. Expressed of direct address - i.e. 'Sit - Bettina - sit!'
euphemism
semicolon
syntax
vocative
22. The pause that breaks a line of Old English verse
epithalamium
hyperbole
substantive
caesura
23. An error of reasoning based on faulty use of evidence
double entendre
under
truism
fallacy
24. A variety of literary devices i.e. - anaphora - repeating
third person limited
repetition
apostrophe
indicative
25. A group of words acting as a noun - i.e. 'Playing the guitar is extremely difficult'
substantive
satire
footnote
qualifying a claim
26. Innocence in perception - lack of worldly knowledge
paradox
semicolon
maxim
naivete
27. One of many subordinating conjunctions
figurative language
chronological organization
since
Alexandrine
28. Knowledge based on experience or observation - the view that experience - especially of the senses - is the only source of knowledge
tongue-in-cheek
musing
empirical
abstract
29. That which comes before; the antecedent of a pronoun is the noun to which the pronoun refers
tongue-in-cheek
caesura
antecedent
cause-effect organization
30. A metaphor using 'like' or 'as' in the comparison
consonance
simile
musing
fiction
31. A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable - i.e. know and snow
tone
double entendre
Auxiliary verb
masculine rhyme
32. Observable - measurable - easily perceived
allegory
vernacular
semicolon
concrete
33. An interpretation of the facts based on available details
anecdote
digress
complement
inference
34. Essay that presents information about the causes of some known or likely outcome - how different causes contribute to the outcome
cause-effect organization
decorum
complement
bias
35. Verb in present tense - 'Bettina plays with children'
indicative
pathos
alliteration
emphatic organization
36. A comic tool of satire - ridiculous exaggeration or distortion
anticlimax
first person
burlesque
Auxiliary verb
37. Comparison of two things that are similar in several respects in order to prove a point or clarify an idea
circumlocution
thesis
analogy
participle
38. Referring to phrases that suggest an interplay of the senses - ie 'hot pink' or 'golden voice'
fallacy
Alexandrine
capitol
synaesthesia
39. Essay pattern in which the writer shows the immediate and underlying causes that led to an event or situation
anticlimax
cause and effect
imperative
symbol
40. Example - this white wine goes well with this fish
damn with faint praise
euphemism
complement
alliteration
41. Ideas or things that can mean many things to many people - such as peace - honor
dilemma
hypothetic example
abstract noun
cause-effect organization
42. Rarely used - the writer uses the pronoun 'you' making the reader an active participant in the work
voice
second person
accordingly
synecdoche
43. To make fun of
mock
epigram
damn with faint praise
rebuttal
44. Appearing in episodes - a long string of short individual scenes
mock
episodic
anthropomorphism
epithet
45. The assigning of human attributes - such as emotions or physical characteristics - to nonhumans - usually plants or animals. Differs from personification in that it is a pattern applied to a nonhuman character throughout the entire literary work
compound sentence
epigram
anthropomorphism
mock
46. Language that is not meant to be taken literally - such as metaphor - simile - personification - metonymy
explicit
feminine rhyme
figurative language
imagery
47. Clever use of language to amuse the reader - but more to make a point
onomatopoeia
wit
protagonist
induction
48. An exception to a proposed general rule
damn with faint praise
counterexample
Spenserian rhyme
inference
49. To give human attributes or qualities to something nonliving or nonhuman
soapstone
synecdoche
personification
pastoral elegy
50. The use of parallel elements in sentences or in the structure of an essay or prose passage ie - essay consisting of 4 paragraphs - each beginning with a question followed by the answer
parallel structure
assonance
tongue-in-cheek
hyperbole