Chapter 4 - Literary Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

• A stylistic device in which a number of words containing the same consonants sounds, occur close together in a series.

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

• When two or more words close together repeat the same vowel sounds, however not the same consonant sound.

Question 3

Colloquialism

Answer 3

• In literature, the uses of informal words or phrases and in some cases even slang.

Question 4

​Dialect

Answer 4

• Language that is spoken which is distinct to particular groups or regions.

Question 5

Dialogue

Answer 5

• A literary technique which employs two or more people to be engaged in conversation, with each other.

Question 6

Dissonance

Answer 6

• A combination of unpleasant and harsh-sounding words, phrases or syllables.

Question 7

Emotive Language

Answer 7

• The deliberate choice of words in order to elicit emotion toward the audience.

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

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• The case in which a sentence continues beyond its line or verse.
• It is often used in poems to create a sense of continuation.

Question 9

Flattery

Answer 9

• The act of praising or complementing the audience.

Question 10

​Hyperbole

Answer 10

• Figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration that is not meant to considered literally.

Question 11

​Imagery

Answer 11

• Used to represent, actions, ideas and objects which appeal to our physical senses.

Question 12

​Irony

Answer 12

• A figure of speech in which the intended meaning of the words is different from the real meaning.

Question 13

Imperative Command

Answer 13

Instructional language

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

• A language technique that makes a hidden comparison between two objects that are unrelated but share characteristics.

Question 15

Monologue

Answer 15

• An uninterrupted piece of speech which presents a character’s state of mind.
• It can be in speech form delivered in front of others or a soliloquy, when the character thinks aloud.

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

• A word that is used for a word, in describing.

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

• Two unrelated words are brought together.

Question 18

​Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 18

• Language technique in which emotions are given applied to inanimate objects such as the weather, objects or setting.

Question 19

Personal pronouns

Answer 19

‘I’, ‘you’ and ‘we’

Question 20

Pathos

Answer 20

• Language that invokes sorrow or pity.

Question 21

Repetition

Answer 21

• A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases in order to convey a particular idea.

Question 22

​Rhyme

Answer 22

• The way in which words sound the same in the stanzas of poems.

Question 23

​Rhythm

Answer 23

• A repetitive beat or metre throughout a poem.

Question 24

Simile

Answer 24

• A phrase which establishes the similarity between two different things, usually involving the use of either like or as.

Question 25

Symbols

Answer 25

• Use of symbols to represent ideas that are often different from the literal sense.
• This could be a colours, objects, sounds and places.

Question 26

​Triples

Answer 26

• Three words in succession used to support an argumentative point.

Question 27

​Tone

Answer 27

• Tone can be voice, atmosphere or the feeling that pervades the text.
• Tone is also conveyed by structural techniques such as sentence structure or assonance.

Question 28

Word choice

Answer 28

• Often called ‘register’ this is the choice of vocabulary that the author has chosen to use.