JC- Terms To Know

Question 1

Understatement

Answer 1

OPPOSITE OF HYPERBOLE

language that makes something less important than it really is

Question 2

Irony-
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic

Answer 2

Verbal: the statement means the opposite of what is being said

Situational: what we think will happen doesn’t

Dramatic: we know something the character does not

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

A figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an inanimate object, and idea, or an absent. (Someone or a thing not there)

Question 4

Tragedy

Answer 4

A play in which a main character suffers a downfall

Question 5

Tragic hero

Answer 5

The protagonist of a tragedy

Admirable qualities but also had a tragic flaw

Question 6

Tragic Flaw

Answer 6

A personal weakness or characteristic that contribute to the characters downfall.

Moral failing or an excess of a virtue (pride, ego, ambition)

Question 7

Soliloquy

Answer 7

On stage speech by a character who believes themselves to be alone but may not be

Internal debate

Reveals:
Truth
Inner thoughts
Characters nature

Question 8

Paradox

Answer 8

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

Question 9

RHETORICAL DEVICES

Art of persuasion

Answer 9

Logos
(logical appeal to reason built on facts and statistics)
:logic of reason and what effect it has

Ethos
(Ethical appeal to integrity)
:trustworthiness or credibility of a speaker

Pathos
(Emotional appeal to sympathy)
:emotional appeals such as flattery

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

A phrase used a repetition at the beginning of clauses

Question 11

Antithesis

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”.
“his sermons were full of startling antitheses”

Question 12

Aposiopesis

Answer 12

Stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished p

Question 13

Rhetorical question

Answer 13

No answer is expected

The answer is obvious

Question 14

Euphemism

Answer 14

a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

“Passed away”

Question 15

Reverse psychology

Answer 15

The advocacy of one course of action in such a way as to persuade someone to take an opposite course

I bet you can’t eat all of those asparagus plants in 1 minute