Test: SMS Vocab - 20 Questions
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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Denotation
- Dialect
- Reciprocity
- Zeitgeist
- Moral
- a language distinguished by geographical region
- b general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era; the "spirit of the time"
- c a dogmatic message delivered in a work of art; presumes to tell the audience right from wrong
- d the specific, word-for-word, dictionary meaning of a word
- e a state of equal give and take
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- language not meant to be taken literally
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- descriptive word or phrase used to categorize a person or group of people
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- an imaginative story invented in an attempt to explain the unexplained
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- art that ridicules, or makes fun of, human ignorance
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- humorous play on a word with more than one meaning
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5 True/False Question
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Innuendo → implication, insinuation; a meaning not stated directly but more subtly hinted
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Philistine → art that ridicules, or makes fun of, human ignorance
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Jargon → a dogmatic message delivered in a work of art; presumes to tell the audience right from wrong
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Fable → a short fictitious story that symbolically illustrates a moral, especially a religious one
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Simile → an indirect comparison, using like or as, between two dissimilar things in order to show similarity
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