Test: SMS Vocab - 20 Questions

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Denotation
  2. Dialect
  3. Reciprocity
  4. Zeitgeist
  5. Moral
  1. a language distinguished by geographical region
  2. b general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era; the "spirit of the time"
  3. c a dogmatic message delivered in a work of art; presumes to tell the audience right from wrong
  4. d the specific, word-for-word, dictionary meaning of a word
  5. e a state of equal give and take

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. language not meant to be taken literally
  2. descriptive word or phrase used to categorize a person or group of people
  3. an imaginative story invented in an attempt to explain the unexplained
  4. art that ridicules, or makes fun of, human ignorance
  5. humorous play on a word with more than one meaning

5 True/False Question

  1. Innuendo → implication, insinuation; a meaning not stated directly but more subtly hinted

          

  2. Philistine → art that ridicules, or makes fun of, human ignorance

          

  3. Jargon → a dogmatic message delivered in a work of art; presumes to tell the audience right from wrong

          

  4. Fable → a short fictitious story that symbolically illustrates a moral, especially a religious one

          

  5. Simile → an indirect comparison, using like or as, between two dissimilar things in order to show similarity

          

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