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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. Open - honest communication
voice
syntax
candor
analogy
2. Something that is implied
assonance
implicit
second person
predicate
3. A saying or expression that proposes to tell the truth
metonymy
alliteration
maxim
inference
4. Expressed of direct address - i.e. 'Sit - Bettina - sit!'
pathetic fallacy
vocative
circumlocution
understatement
5. Descriptive language to evoke the senses
thesis
imagery
syllogism
musing
6. Expressly stated
compound complex sentence
episodic
truism
explicit
7. A comparison of two unlike things in order to show or more clearly or in a new way
circumlocution
satire
paradox
metaphor
8. A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable - i.e. know and snow
cadence
counterexample
catalog
masculine rhyme
9. An event or experience that causes disappointment because it is less exciting than what was expected
anticlimax
under
abstract
footnote
10. The work is narrated using a name or third person pronoun ie - he - she - etc.
Italian rhyme
counterexample
idiom
third person
11. Essay that presents information about two or more things - events - or ideas in order to compare them
comparison organization
simple sentence
abstract
understatement
12. Consists of a single independent clause
syllogism
synecdoche
simple sentence
anticlimax
13. 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
hypothetic example
tongue-in-cheek
damn with faint praise
anthropomorphism
14. Repetition - at close intervals - of beginning sounds
discretion
alliteration
cause-effect organization
qualifying a claim
15. Rarely used - the writer uses the pronoun 'you' making the reader an active participant in the work
hyperbole
epigram
epithalamium
second person
16. Observable - measurable - easily perceived
maxim
footnote
concrete
second person
17. An exception to a proposed general rule
counterexample
oxymoron
catalog
tongue-in-cheek
18. The metaphor forms the basis for the entire work - extends throughout the work or passage
analogy
verb phrase
synaesthesia
extended metaphor
19. A line of iambic hexameter; the final line of a Spenserian stanza is alexandrine
Alexandrine
vernacular
rebuttal
wit
20. Refined taste - tact - the ability to avoid distress or embarrassment
discretion
capitol
antecedent
allusion
21. Understatement created through double negative
satire
litotes
parallel structure
framing
22. An indirect attack or insinuation
doggerel
capital
innuendo
analogy
23. A negative statement
catalog
subjunctive
negation
allegory
24. A formula of deductive argument that consists of 3 propositions - the major premise - minor premise - and conclusion
verb phrase
syllogism
third person
antithesis
25. A humorous imitation of an original text meant to ridicule - often used in satire
catalog
paraody
consonance
antithesis balanced
26. A comic tool of satire - ridiculous exaggeration or distortion
burlesque
Italian rhyme
parallel structure
metaphor
27. Vowel rhyme
assonance
subjunctive
empirical
chronological organization
28. An example that is particularly apt for the situation at hand
anthropomorphism
emphatic organization
over generalization
exemplar
29. To illustrate how a claim can be true in some ways and false in others
anticlimax
generality organization
paradox
qualifying a claim
30. Humorous or ironic statement not meant to be taken literally
imagery
Shakespearean rhyme
tongue-in-cheek
satire
31. Innocence in perception - lack of worldly knowledge
compliment
empirical
alliteration
naivete
32. The verb and its object and modifiers
verb phrase
hypothetic example
exemplar
third person
33. One of many conjunctive adverbs
decorum
irony
accordingly
simile
34. (1) a short poetic nickname; (2) a term used to describe the name or title of a person -ie 'The Great Emancipator' for Abraham Lincoln; (3) an abusive slur
epithalamium
epithet
neutrality
third person
35. Appearing in episodes - a long string of short individual scenes
Spenserian rhyme
episodic
neutrality
colloquial
36. An explanatory reference at the bottom of a page of text
footnote
symbol
Shakespearean rhyme
predicate
37. Vague - not easily defined
antecedent
abstract noun
abstract
tongue-in-cheek
38. To write around a subject - evasively - say nothing
since
circumlocution
third person omniscient
analogical comparison
39. Abab bcbc cdcd ee
cause and effect
circular reasoning
qualifying a claim
Spenserian rhyme
40. Verb used to express conditional or counterfactual statements - i.e. 'If I were rich'
subjunctive
paraody
exemplar
chronological organization
41. Language that is not meant to be taken literally - such as metaphor - simile - personification - metonymy
generality organization
antecedent
figurative language
cause and effect
42. Main idea of an essay - what the writer hope to prove is true
metonymy
concrete
exemplar
thesis
43. Abab cdcd efef gg
feminine rhyme
ethos
Shakespearean rhyme
synecdoche
44. Verb in present tense - 'Bettina plays with children'
complement
problem-solution organization
indicative
third person omniscient
45. A kind or more gentle word to dilute the meaning in order to evade responsibility for a more disturbing word - i.e. 'passed on' instead of 'died'
idealism
syllogism
induction
euphemism
46. A type of poem that takes the form of a lament for the dead sung by a shepherd
accordingly
pathetic fallacy
pastoral elegy
antithesis
47. A thing - idea - or person that stands for something else
allegory
analogy
symbol
diatribe
48. To place side by side in order to show similarities or differences
counterexample
oxymoron
Alexandrine
juxtapose
49. 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
soapstone
Spenserian rhyme
allegory
50. The building housing lawmakers of a state or nation
decorum
capitol
verb phrase
abstraction