English Language Exam Notes: Vocabulary and Grammar, Exams of English Language

Download English Language Exam Notes: Vocabulary and Grammar and more Exams English Language in PDF only on Docsity! 1 [Date] BYU ENGLISH FINAL EXAM 2024 Malevolent - ANS>> Wishing harm to others Condescend - ANS>> Deal with others in a snobby way Illicitly - ANS>> Unlawfully or unproperly Iniquity - ANS>> Wickedness or injustice Contentious - ANS>> Looking disputes or arguments Diminutive - ANS>> Small or tiny Amiable - ANS>> Good-natured and friendly Arbitrate - ANS>> Dispute or decide Melancholy - ANS>> Sad and depressed Aloof - ANS>> Reserved and at a distance Placid - ANS>> Calm and quiet Asinine - ANS>> Stupid and silly Malignant - ANS>> Passionately evil Perpetual - ANS>> Lasting a long time Ascertain - ANS>> To find out with certainty Ideas and Content - ANS>> Keep ideas straight. Ideas should be clear and should surprise the reader to some degree. Organization - ANS>> Consist of directing and organizing what is being said in a way that the reader can understand. Voice - ANS>> Consists of using your personality in your writing and giving writing style. Exhibiting confidence in the topic. Word Choice - ANS>> Using exact in detailed words to tell the reader is what they should know. 2 [Date] Sentence Fluency - ANS>> Having a natural flow of sentence types and structures. Concise and clear sentences. Conventions - ANS>> Trait consist of using correct English, paragraphing, capitalization, punctuation, usage, verb tense and spelling. Revising and editing the paper Noun - ANS>> A word used to name a person, place, thing or idea Pronoun - ANS>> Noun showing ownership Adjective - ANS>> A word used to modify a noun or pronoun Verb - ANS>> A word that expresses action or helps make a statement Adverb - ANS>> A word used to modify a verb, adjective, or adverb Preposition - ANS>> A word showing relationship of noun and pronoun to some other word in the sentence Conjunction - ANS>> A word that joins words or groups of words Interjection - ANS>> Wow! Oh! Ah! Hurray! Allusion - ANS>> A reference to an outside source, person, or object in a written text that assumes the reader knows what is being referred to Alliteration - ANS>> Words near each other that start with the same sound Personification - ANS>> Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects Hyperbole - ANS>> Exaggeration of the truth Simile - ANS>> A comparison between two unlike objects, using like or as Metaphor - ANS>> A comparison between two unlike objects, not using like or as Imagery - ANS>> Painting a clear picture in the readers mind Sensory - ANS>> Using other senses besides or with sight to describe something at the reader could possibly smell, hear, taste, or touch if they were actually there Symbol - ANS>> An object that represents an abstract idea Irony - ANS>> A result or word that is possible of what is expected 5 [Date] Dynamic - ANS>> Character who undergoes change within story Round - ANS>> Character described with many characteristics Flat - ANS>> Character with one or two traits Stock - ANS>> Stereotypical and minor character Setting - ANS>> The time and place of story Plot - ANS>> What occurs during the story Exposition - ANS>> The introduction Conflict - ANS>> Tensions existing in the story Character vs nature Character vs him or herself Character vs society Character vs another character - ANS>> The Four Different Conflicts Climax - ANS>> Most intense conflict in story Resolution - ANS>> Everything is resolved Point of View - ANS>> Who is telling the story Third Person POW - ANS>> Told by narrator out of action First Person POW - ANS>> Told by one of the characters Theme - ANS>> What the reader can learn (moral/messages) Autobiography - ANS>> A person's account of his or her life When Heaven and Earth Changed Places - ANS>> Told in first person and set in Vietnam war Kaffir Boy - ANS>> Narrative told by boy during Apartheid Farewell to Manzanar - ANS>> Japanese racism in World War II Acrimonious - ANS>> Caustic, bitter, or harsh in speech or manner Ambidextrous - ANS>> Using both hands with equal ease 6 [Date] Complacent - ANS>> Content, often to the point of self-satisfaction or smugness Convene - ANS>> To come together Cynical - ANS>> Denying the sincerity of people's motives Discreet - ANS>> Prudent or careful about one's actions Fluctuate - ANS>> To shift back-and-forth uncertainly Impassive - ANS>> Calm and not feeling or showing emotion Indigenous - ANS>> Living or occurring naturally in the environment Infinite - ANS>> Without boundaries or limits Irrelevant - ANS>> Having no applications or no importance to the topic at hand Mollify - ANS>> To soothe or appease ;make less severe Scrutiny - ANS>> Close and careful inspection Volition - ANS>> Act of choosing or deciding; agency Warranted - ANS>> Having justification or grounds for action; possessing legal document allowing search Informal Fallacies - ANS>> Poor tactics for persuasion, but are used quite a bit- especially in advertising Post Hoc - ANS>> Unsound argument or reasoning occurs when someone blames what is happening I don't event that happened earlier but is unrelated Hasty Generalization - ANS>> Occurs when someone creates generalization of some sort. Stereotypes in a way Either/or Reasoning - ANS>> Occurs when a person states that there are only two options Ad Hominem - ANS>> Against the person such as politicians Appeal to False Authority/Bandwagon - ANS>> Occurs when a person tries to get others to like him or her by persuading them with evidence that a famous person or many others think that way. peer pressure. Circular Reasoning - ANS>> Occurs when people state their reasoning is an argument 7 [Date] Red Herring - ANS>> Occurs when a person throws into the argument something totally unrelated to sidetrack or confuse Slippery Slope - ANS>> Occurs when a person assumes that just because a person is headed down the wrong path, then that person will follow that path all the way Night searching for Eldorado - ANS>> Eldorado, Edgar Allan Poe Ellen and a man (married Ellen's cousin because he was in love with Ellen) - ANS>> Age of Innocence Stoning Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson because Tess he was one of the ones picked - ANS>> The Lottery Holocaust diary- perspective of a young male prisoner. The Selection, he and his father survived it - ANS>> Night Acquiesce - ANS>> To consent without protest Acquit - ANS>> To release to obligation; clear of charge Adamant - ANS>> Inflexible or unyielding Arid - ANS>> Dry or barren; an interesting or dull Bleek - ANS>> Cold, bare; gloomy or not hopeful Connive - ANS>> To cooperate secretly in a scheme or wrongdoing Contradict - ANS>> To assert the opposite of what is being spoken/contrary Corroborate - ANS>> To confirm or support Credibility - ANS>> Believability or reliability Reluctant - ANS>> To be hesitant because of doubts Drone - ANS>> And idler or loafer; to talk monotonous Fatalism - ANS>> The believe that all events are determined by fate/inevitable Mortification - ANS>> Extreme humiliation Perpetrate - ANS>> To commit; a blunder or a crime