Exam: Literary Devices

Question 1

An image

Answer 1

A piece of news from the world outside or from our own bodies which is brought into the light of consciousness through one of the senses

Question 2

Concrete image

Answer 2

Anything presented to consciousness as a bodily sensation

Question 3

Abstract image

Answer 3

An idea that only exists in the mind

Question 4

Sensory images

Answer 4

1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Tactile
4. Gustatory
5. Olfactory

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

An unusual comparison specifically stated with the use of “like” or “as”

Question 6

Metaphor

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An unusual comparison in which the first takes a quality of the second

Question 7

Analogy

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Can be seen on two levels; typically nature and human

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Paraphrase

Answer 8

Take the words or ideas of another and rephrase them into our own words

Question 9

Allusion

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Making an incomplete reference to an event of piece of literature, cannot be understood if it is unknown

Question 10

Personification

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To give an inanimate object one or more human qualities

Question 11

Mythology

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Study of historical/ancient stories that attempt to explain the world

Question 12

Synecdoche

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A piece of something that represents the whole

Question 13

Metonymy

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An object which represents another/has significance

Question 14

Symbol

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An image that stands for more than what it denotes literally

Question 15

Allegory

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A novel which appears to be about one topic, but reflects on our society

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Vivification

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Any living quality

Question 17

Paradox

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2 statements that appear to be contradictory, but give a deeper understanding

Question 18

Oxymoron

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Two words which directly contradict each other, yet give a deeper understanding

Question 19

Irony

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A statement in which the opposite is intended/understood

Question 20

Dramatic irony

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When a character says a statement which contradicts the truth known by the audience

Question 21

Hyperbole

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An over exaggeration used for comedic effect

Question 22

Alliteration

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A series of words with the same first consonant sound

Question 23

Euphemism

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Pleasant sounding words or phrases, used to replace harsher ones

Question 24

Withheld image

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An image which is referred to, but deliberately not repeated

Question 25

Litotes

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An understatement in which it assets a truth by denying it’s opposite

Question 26

Synesthesia

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Two senses are used to describe one quality

Question 27

Onomatopoeia

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Words used to recreate a sound

Question 28

Rhythm

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The music of the language, the natural flow of alternating words that rise and fall; words that are connected yet separate. Rhythm in poetry is measured in meters and feet.

Question 29

Meter

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A recurrence of regular rhythmic units displaying a recognizable pattern of varying stresses or accents im each line of a stanza. Compositions written in meter are called verse.

Question 30

Iambus

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One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Question 31

Trochee

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One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed sullable

Question 32

Anapest

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Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

Question 33

Sonnet

Answer 33

A poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter. Each line contains 10 syllables and has a fixed rhyme scheme

Question 34

Shakespearean sonnet

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a poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg

Question 35

Petrarchan sonnet

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a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd