Take home, some GMAT jargon. Just gorge on them
Yes, you heard it right…there are words typical to GMAT verbal ( critical reasoning and reading comprehension).. here’s a list comes handy in RC/CR.
1. Allusion : Indirect reference to a person, place or event to another.
2. Archaism : The use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in common speech.
3. Burlesque : An incognito imitation; it imitates the matter or form of a play in an amusing manner.
4. Connotation and denotation : The denotation of a word is its primary meaning; connotation is the range of accompanying meanings in which it suggests or implies.
5. Motif and theme : A motif is an element – an incident, device or formula – which recurs frequently.
6. Prosody : Systematic study of writing verse (poem); principles in the use of rhyme, stanza etc.
7. Anecdote : Simple narration of a single incident.
8. Pastoral elegy : Represents both the mourner and the one he mourns.
9. Figurative language : Deviates from what we apprehend as the standard significance or sequence of words, in order to achieve special meaning or effect.
10. Symbol : A word or set of words that signifies an object or event which itself signifies something else.
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