Allegory - Cliche - narrative AND Explication - mixed metaphor

Question 1

Tells about a series of events

Answer 1

Narrative

Question 2

Interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text

Answer 2

Explication

Question 3

Short story that teaches a practical lesson

Answer 3

Fable

Question 4

A type of comedy that stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations

Answer 4

Farce

Question 5

Inaccurate if interpreted literally

Answer 5

Figurative Language

Question 6

Interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events

Answer 6

Flashback

Question 7

Character who acts as contrast to another character

Answer 7

Foil

Question 8

Hints and clues to suggest what till happen later in a plot

Answer 8

Foreshadowing

Question 9

Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhythm scheme

Answer 9

Free Verse

Question 10

Uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement

Answer 10

Hyperbole

Question 11

Connecting words between clauses

Answer 11

Hypotactic

Question 12

Use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, place, or an experience

Answer 12

Imagery

Question 13

Reversal of the normal word order in a sentence

Answer 13

Inversion

Question 14

Discrepancy between appearances and reality

Answer 14

Irony

Question 15

Someone says one thing but really means something else

Answer 15

Verbal Irony

Question 16

When there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, and what really does happen

Answer 16

Situational Irony

Question 17

Often used on stage. In the play or story character think one thing is true, but the audience knows better

Answer 17

Dramatic Irony

Question 18

Normally un associated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another

Answer 18

Juxtaposition

Question 19

Understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form

Answer 19

Litotes

Question 20

Fiction or poetry tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape

Answer 20

Local Color

Question 21

Main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units

Answer 21

Loose Sentence

Question 22

Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker

Answer 22

Lyric Poem

Question 23

Makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles

Answer 23

Metaphor

Question 24

Does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison

Answer 24

Implied Metaphor

Question 25

Extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it

Answer 25

Extended Metaphor

Question 26

Metaphor has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid

Answer 26

Dead Metaphor

Question 27

Metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible

Answer 27

Mixed Metaphor