Key Terms

Question 0

Denouement

Answer 0

Final part of a story in which series of events tie up loose end and plot moves towards being resolved

Question 1

Define exposition

Answer 1

Essential background info

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to a something well-known

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

Extreme exaggeration to add meaning

Question 4

Idiom

Answer 4

Phrase

Combination of words with a different meaning to the individual words themselves

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

Audience knows something a character doesn’t

Question 6

Paradox

Answer 6

Statement that seems contradictory but may reveal truth

Question 7

Protagonist

Answer 7

Main character

Question 8

Satire

Answer 8

Use of humour, irony, exaggeration to expose or criticise people’s stupidity

Parody

Question 9

Soliloquy

Answer 9

Character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud

Question 10

Cacophony

Answer 10

Discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds to help convey disorder

Question 11

Euphony

Answer 11

Series of musically pleasant sounds conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to language

Question 12

Euphemism

Answer 12

Understatement used to lessen the effect of something to make it sound less offensive

Question 13

Synecdoche

Answer 13

Indicates a person, object etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole

Question 14

Synesthesia

Answer 14

Attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense in words normally used to describe another