Study these cards to review for the multiple choice questions on your midterm exam.
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| 2123659213 | affectation | A phony attitude; pose | 0 | |
| 2123659214 | vulgar | Coarse; common | 1 | |
| 2123659215 | solemnity | Seriousness | 2 | |
| 2123659216 | declamation | dramatic speech | 3 | |
| 2123659217 | glib | (adj.) Ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere | 4 | |
| 2123659218 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 5 | |
| 2123659219 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 6 | |
| 2123659220 | circumlocution | an indirect way of expressing something | 7 | |
| 2123659221 | strident | LOUD; HARSH; UNPLEASANTLY NOISY | 8 | |
| 2123659222 | capricious | ADJ. FICKLE, N. INCLINATION TO CHANGE ONE'S MIND COMPULSIVELY | 9 | |
| 2123659223 | superficial | (adj.) on or near the surface; concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface, shallow | 10 | |
| 2123659224 | lyrical | Expressing a poet's inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like | 11 | |
| 2123659225 | inexorable | inflexible; unyielding | 12 | |
| 2123659226 | virtuosity | Great technical skill | 13 | |
| 2123659227 | extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation | 14 | |
| 2123659228 | feign | To pretend | 15 | |
| 2123659229 | effusive | gushing; excessively demonstrative | 16 | |
| 2123659230 | pedantic | Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules | 17 | |
| 2123659231 | concrete diction | Language that describes qualities that can be perceived with the five senses as opposed to using abstract or generalized language. | 18 | |
| 2123659232 | parallel syntax | repetition of words, phrases, and clauses used in a concise manner | 19 | |
| 2123659233 | understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. | 20 | |
| 2123659234 | ironic | (adj.) suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens; given to irony, sarcastic | 21 | |
| 2123659235 | disjointed | LACKING ORDER OR COHERENCE; DISLOCATED | 22 | |
| 2123659236 | purist | someone who insists that rules be followed strictly | 23 | |
| 2123659237 | affected | phony; artificial | 24 | |
| 2123659238 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 25 |
