Handout 3

Question 1

Literature Goggles

Answer 1

1. Form
2. Theme
3. Repetition
4. Devices

Question 2

Prose and Poetry

Answer 2

Form

Question 3

is a literary work that is spoken or written in the common flow
of language in sentences and paragraphs which give information, relate events, express ideas, or present opinions

Answer 3

Prose

Question 4

is a literary work expressed in verse, measure, rhythm, sound,
and imaginative language and creates an emotional response to an
experience, feeling or fact

Answer 4

Poetry

Question 5

A significant truth and its nature that limits narration to what the
central character thinks, feels, does, and what and whom the central
character observes.

Answer 5

Theme

Question 6

Repetition of Words and Repetition of Sentences or Phrases

Answer 6

Repetition

Question 7

is the writer’s use of interruption of the
chronological sequence of a story to go back to related
incidents which occurred prior to the beginning of the story

Answer 7

Flashback

Question 8

the writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in the story. The use of this technique both creates suspense and prepares the reader for
what is to come

Answer 8

Foreshadowing

Question 9

the placement of two or more things side by
side, often in order to bring out their differences

Answer 9

Juxtaposition

Question 10

an image that becomes so suggestive that it takes on much more meaning than its descriptive value

Answer 10

Symbol

Question 11

the use of sensory details or descriptions that appeal tone or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste,
and smell; senses of the mind

Answer 11

Imagery

Question 12

Types of Imagery

Answer 12

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

Question 13

This the most frequent type of imagery used to
recreate a certain image

Answer 13

Visual Imagery

Question 14

This is the mental representation of any sound and it is vital in imagining and feeling a situation

Answer 14

Auditory Imagery

Question 15

It is a broader term used to describe the sense of
movement or tension

Answer 15

Kinesthetic Imagery

Question 16

It is related to smell and this imagery helps summon and deliver the smells to the reader

Answer 16

Olfactory Imagery

Question 17

It appeals to the sense of touch by presenting
attributes like hardness, softness or hot and cold sensations

Answer 17

Tactile imagery

Question 18

It illustrates and recreates the tastes of food or many
other things

Answer 18

Gustatory imagery

Question 19

are specific devices or a kind of figurative
language that uses words, phrases, and sentences in a nonliteral definition but, rather, gives meanings in abstraction

Answer 19

Figures of Speech

Question 20

Types of Figures of Speech

Answer 20

1. Allusion
2. Anaphora
3. Antithesis
4. Apostrophe
5. Hyperbole
6. Irony
7. Litotes
8. Metaphor
9. Metonymy
10. Oxymoron
11. Paradox
12. Personification
13. Simile
14. Synecdoche
15. Synesthesia
16. Understatement

Question 21

a figure of speech that makes a reference to or a representation of people, places, events,
literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication

Answer 21

Allusion

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Anaphora

Question 23

a rhetorical term for the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses

Answer 23

Antithesis

Question 24

a figure of speech in which some absent or non-existent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding or
replying

Answer 24

Apostrophe

Question 25

involves an exaggeration of ideas for the
sake of emphasis

Answer 25

Hyperbole

Question 26

refers to how a person, situation, statement, or
circumstance is not as it would actually seem

Answer 26

Irony

Question 27

a figure of speech consisting of an ironical
understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite

Answer 27

Litotes

Question 28

an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important
in common

Answer 28

Metaphor

Question 29

a figure of speech in which one word or
phrase is substituted for another with which it is
closely associated

Answer 29

Metonymy

Question 30

a figure of speech in which two opposite
ideas are joined to create an effect

Answer 30

Oxymoron

Question 31

from the Greek word “paradoxon” that
means contrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion.

Answer 31

Paradox

Question 32

a figure of speech in which an inanimate object, an animal or idea is endowed with human qualities or abilities

Answer 32

Personification

Question 33

a stated comparison (usually formed with
“like”, “than,” or “as”) between two fundamentally
dissimilar or unlike things that have certain qualities in
common

Answer 33

Simile

Question 34

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the
material for the thing made from it

Answer 34

Synecdoche

Question 35

refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such
a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, etc. at a given time

Answer 35

Synesthesia

Question 36

a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is

Answer 36

Understatement

Question 37

types of irony

Answer 37

situational
dramatic
verbal

Question 38

what is expected and what is actualized

Answer 38

situational irony

Question 39

a character is unaware of pivotal information already revealed to the audience

Answer 39

dramatic irony

Question 40

where one states one thing while meaning another

Answer 40

verbal irony