Raise Your Voice - Pretest

Term

Definition

Accumulation

The acquisition or gradual gathering of something.

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely
connected words.

Allusion

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly;

an indirect or passing reference.

Amplification

An act.

Analogy

A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for
the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Argument

An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

Audience

The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie,

concert, or meeting.

Context

The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in
terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

Diction

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Emotive language

Phrasing which creates a strong emotional response in the reader.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Imagery

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

Inclusive language

Gender-neutral language, gender-inclusive language, inclusive language, or

gender neutrality is a form of linguistic prescriptivism that aims to eliminate
reference to gender in terms that describe people.

Logic

Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to

which it is not literally applicable.

Purpose

The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Repetition

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Rhetorical question

A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be

answered.

Simile

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a
different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

Syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a

language.

Understatement

The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it

actually is.