General Features

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 3

Ambiguity

Answer 3

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness

Question 4

Antithesis

Answer 4

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled )

Question 6

Cliche

Answer 6

a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

a word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation

Question 8

Comedy

Answer 8

the humorous or amusing aspects of something.

Question 9

Conceit

Answer 9

an ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor.

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Question 11

Consonance

Answer 11

the recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity, especially in prosody.

Question 12

Diction

Answer 12

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

Question 13

Empathy

Answer 13

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

Question 14

Figurative Language

Answer 14

the use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison

Question 15

Hyperbole

Answer 15

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 16

Imagery

Answer 16

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

Question 17

Irony

Answer 17

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another

Question 19

Onomatopoeia

Answer 19

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Question 20

Oxymoron

Answer 20

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Question 21

Paradox

Answer 21

a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one’s expectation

Question 22

Personification

Answer 22

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Question 23

Rhetoric

Answer 23

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Question 24

Satire

Answer 24

the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 26

Tone

Answer 26

the writer’s attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience

Question 27

Structure

Answer 27

the organisation of a story’s various elements, including plot, characters, and themes