Test+13

Coherence, Generalization, Unity, Polysyndeton, Asyndeton
 * Rhetorical Terms on This Week's Test--Dec. 12**

grandiloquence (n)- speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic. I found this word in The Devil in the White City. The man made them feel his condescension with his grandiloquence.
 * Our Collaborative Vocabulary Words for This Week's Test**

analgesia- (n)- absence of pain. I found this word when i googled interesting words. The girl was analgesia after being hit in the stomach with a baseball bat. -Haley Hollingsworth

[|axiom]- a self-evident truth that requires no proof //Cincinnati Enquirer// Sports Page, 12-13: //After Late Loss, Bengals move on// Honesty is always the best policy; an axiom to which people refuse to listen to. BENJAMIND.42

[|Intersperse]- (verb) to scatter about here and there at intervals I came across this word in //The Devil In The White City.// Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-will young women, "interspersed," as one visitor put it, "with earnest-faced self-subordination and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically."

[|Piety] - (noun) reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations. I found his word when reading //Devil in The White City,// The life of the monk was full of piety and prayer. R.k

Expedient - adjective- Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose. I found this while read section 3 of //Devil in the White City//. The man entered the room and told the woman that it was expedient for her to go. -Heidi T

[|amorphous] //adjective// - lacking definite form or shape I found this while reading The Great Gatsby //"A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees." (Fitzgerald 161) // The word stood out to being because it was very mysterious and abstract. My sentence: As we left for school, the amorphous fog engulfed our car causing our visibility to fade into the darkness. -Patrick M