English Quiz #1

• • EXPANDED DEFINITIONS — techniqual definition that is used when a certain word or phrase needs to be explained with much detail
• • HISTORY — origin of a word or a term.
  • COMPARE AND CONTRAST — to look at their similarities and differences
  • EXAMPLE — provides concrete representation
  • CAUSE AND EFFECT — "why did it occur" and "what are its effects"
  • FUNCTIONS — how it is used or how it operates
• • PLAGIARISM — is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own
• CLONE: Taking someone else's work, word for word
• CTRL + C: Copying from any single source without any alteration
• REMIX: Collecting information from multiple sources, combining into one work by paraphrasing
• FIND AND REPLACE: Changing keywords and phrases of the original content, but keeping the main parts of the original source intact
• RECYCLE: Self-plagiarism, borrowing from one's own previous work without properly citing the sources
• HYBRID: Blend of work that is properly cited alongside copied passages from an original source that is not cited
• 404 ERROR: Citing a non-existent source or providing inaccurate source of information
• AGGREGATOR: Very little original work in the piece
• MASH-UP: Mixing up copied information from multiple sources
• RE-TWEET: Includes proper citations but relies heavily on the original work
• • LITERARY DEVICE — achieves a special effect by using words in a distinctive way.
• Simile:

  • A stated comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as"
• Metaphor:

  • Comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common
• Personification:

  • Giving human qualities or abilities to non-human things
• Hyperbole:

  • An extravagant statement or exaggeration
• Onomatopoeia:

  • The use of words that imitate sounds
• Irony:

  • The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning
• Verbal Irony:

  • Seems very direct but indicates that the opposite is true
• Situational Irony:

  • Something happens that is completely different from what was expected
• Dramatic Irony:

  • When the audience knows more about what's going on than the characters
• Oxymoron:

  • Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
• Paradox:

  • Appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth
• Synecdoche:

  • A figure of speech where a part is used to represent the whole
• Metonymy:

  • Indirectly describing by referring to things around it
• Apostrophe:

  • Directly addressing a non-existent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being
• Euphemism:

  • The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
• Antithesis:

  • Direct opposite of someone or something else
  • Involves balanced phrases
• Anaphora:

  • Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
• Alliteration:

  • The repetition of an initial consonant sound
• Assonance:

  • Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words