English 10H - Literary Terms

Question 1

when consecutive words start with the same letter or sound

Answer 1

alliteration

Question 2

comparing two things

Answer 2

analogy

Question 3

describing the attributes of a character

Answer 3

characterization

Question 4

highlighting differences

Answer 4

contrast

Question 5

something that happens before the story that you can “see”

Answer 5

flashback

Question 6

something that happens before the story that is talked about or mentioned

Answer 6

antecedent incident

Question 7

clue or hint to future events

Answer 7

foreshadowing

Question 8

description of anything

Answer 8

imagery

Question 9

when the opposite of what you expect happens

Answer 9

irony

Question 10

calling something something else

Answer 10

metaphor

Question 11

the feeling the audience takes away from the situation

Answer 11

mood

Question 12

the way the narrator expresses the topic

Answer 12

tone

Question 13

contradictory word or phrase

Answer 13

oxymoron

Question 14

giving something a personality or human characteristics

Answer 14

anthropomorphism/personification

Question 15

perspective of the narrator (how the story’s told)

Answer 15

point of view

Question 16

play on words

Answer 16

pun

Question 17

word or phrase that occurs again and again

Answer 17

repetition

Question 18

place and time in which the story takes place

Answer 18

setting

Question 19

calling something something else using “like” or “as”

Answer 19

simile

Question 20

voice of the literature

Answer 20

speaker/narrator

Question 21

something that stands for something else

Answer 21

symbol

Question 22

underlying meaning/message of the literature

Answer 22

theme

Question 23

story taking abstract concepts and giving them physical identites/meaning

Answer 23

allegory

Question 24

when the meaning is unclear (cliffhanger)

Answer 24

ambiguity

Question 25

reference to another piece of literature, person, or event

Answer 25

allusion

Question 26

connection of middle vowels to make "rhymes"

Answer 26

assonance

Question 27

words we associate with other words

Answer 27

connotation

Question 28

three-step logical argument (given, given, conclusion)

Answer 28

syllogism

Question 29

two lines of rhyming poetry

Answer 29

couplet

Question 30

connection of consonants to make "rhymes"

Answer 30

consonance

Question 31

dictionary definition of words

Answer 31

denotation

Question 32

word choice

Answer 32

diction

Question 33

metaphor continued throughout the literature

Answer 33

extended metaphor

Question 34

a character that doesn't change

Answer 34

flat character

Question 35

a character that changes

Answer 35

round character

Question 36

intended exaggeration

Answer 36

hyperbole

Question 37

suggests something without actually saying it

Answer 37

implied metaphor

Question 38

comparing two very different things

Answer 38

juxtaposition

Question 39

repeated image

Answer 39

motif

Question 40

contradictory situation

Answer 40

paradox

Question 41

two parts of a plot mirror eachother

Answer 41

parallel structure

Question 42

setting mirrors the character's emotions

Answer 42

pathetic fallacy

Question 43

four lines of poetry

Answer 43

quatrain

Question 44

choices an author makes

Answer 44

style

Question 45

sentence structure (order things go in)

Answer 45

syntax

Question 46

repeating the same phrase in consecutive lines of poetry

Answer 46

anaphora

Question 47

refer to something that's not physically present

Answer 47

apostrophe

Question 48

refer to part of a whole

Answer 48

synecdoche

Question 49

closely related word to something else

Answer 49

metonymy

Question 50

clever extended metaphor

Answer 50

conceit

Question 51

when someone makes you choose between two different options when in reality there are many more

Answer 51

either/or

Question 52

when someone insults their opponent instead of the argument

Answer 52

ad hominem

Question 53

fake person made in order to illustrate a point

Answer 53

strawman

Question 54

slowly changing something's meaning to support your argument

Answer 54

the beard

Question 55

claiming universal ignorance to support your argument ("no one really knows so I must know")

Answer 55

from ignorance

Question 56

"after the fact, therefore because of the fact"; just because something happened before the fact doesn't mean it caused the fact

Answer 56

post hoc ergo propter hoc

Question 57

when someone's argument sounds too unbelievable to be true

Answer 57

incredulity

Question 58

multiple examples leading to a general truth

Answer 58

inductive reasoning

Question 59

general truth leading to the judgment of multiple examples

Answer 59

deductive reasoning

Question 60

a short, personal story

Answer 60

anecdote

Question 61

making an unpleasant idea more pleasant

Answer 61

euphemism

Question 62

informal language

Answer 62

slang

Question 63

logical appeals

Answer 63

logos

Question 64

emotional appeals

Answer 64

pathos

Question 65

ethical appeals

Answer 65

ethos