Vocabulary quiz
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What part of speech replaces a noun, like 'he' or 'they'?
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What word shows location or direction, like 'under'?
Answer: Preposition
Why: Prepositions connect nouns to other words to describe time, space, or direction.
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What figure of speech uses a part to represent the whole?
Answer: Synecdoche
Why: Synecdoche requires an actual physical or constituent part, whereas metonymy uses an associated concept like the crown for royalty.
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What is using a similar-sounding wrong word called?
Answer: Malapropism
Why: The term comes from the character Mrs. Malaprop in the 1775 comedy The Rivals, who constantly mixed up similar words.
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What term describes an overused, unoriginal phrase?
Answer: Cliché
Why: The term comes from the French word for a metal printing plate used for repetitive casting.
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What is a word formed by rearranging the letters of another?
Answer: Anagram
Why: While an anagram rearranges a specific word's letters, a pangram uses every letter in the alphabet.
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What mistake replaces a phrase with a similar-sounding real phrase?
Answer: Eggcorn
Why: Linguist Geoffrey Pullum named the error in 2003 after someone who believed acorns were called eggcorns.
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