Crime conventions

Question 1

a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting.

Answer 1

Red herrings

Question 2

narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.

Answer 2

Foreshadowing

Question 3

type of fictional detective who solves crimes solely on the basis of secondhand information

Answer 3

armchair detective

Question 4

fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.

Answer 4

mystery

Question 5

imagery that relates to touch

Answer 5

tactile imagery

Question 6

imagery that relates to sound

Answer 6

auditory imagery

Question 7

imagery that relates to smell

Answer 7

olfactory imagery

Question 8

imagery that relates to taste

Answer 8

gustatory imagery

Question 9

imagery that relates to sight

Answer 9

visual imagery

Question 10

a literary device in which a writer uses one thing—like an object, idea, or color—to represent another.

Answer 10

symbolism

Question 11

a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.

Answer 11

anaphora

Question 12

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Answer 12

hyperbole

Question 13

a sentence cut short

Answer 13

truncated sentence

Question 14

the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.

Answer 14

tone