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Question 1

Litotes

Answer 1

Is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form.
EXP: It’s not the best weather today. During a hurricane

Question 2

Local Color

Answer 2

A term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape.
EXP: Assumption that an apple is “red”.

Question 3

Loose Sentence

Answer 3

One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units.
EXP: I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, and shopped at the mall.

Question 4

Lyric Poem

Answer 4

A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thought of the speaker.
EXP: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between the two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
EXP: He’s a couch potato.

Question 6

Implied Metaphor

Answer 6

Does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison.
EXP: The police officer barked his orders to the crowd of onlookers.

Question 7

Extended Metaphor

Answer 7

Is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
EXP: You’re a snake! Everything you hiss out of your mouth is a lie. You frighten children, and you have no spine

Question 8

Dead Metaphor

Answer 8

Is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid.
EXP: Went belly up

Question 9

Mixed Metaphor

Answer 9

Is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible.
EXP: At first, she was a weighted barge, then a sunflower tracking the light.

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it.
EXP: I gave you my heart -referring to love.

Question 11

Mood

Answer 11

An atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected.
EXP: It was a dark and stormy night -Overall dark, ominous, or suspenseful mood.

Question 12

Motif

Answer 12

A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work.
EXP: Wicked stepmother in fairy tales.

Question 13

Motivation

Answer 13

The reasons for a character’s behavior
EXP: Watching an Olympic athlete and working hard in sports to become like that athlete.

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

The use of words whose sounds echo their sense.
EXP: Pop, Zap.

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
EXP: Bitter-sweet

Question 16

Parable

Answer 16

A figure of speech that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life.
EXP: The boy who cried wolf.

Question 17

Paradox

Answer 17

A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
EXP: It was the beginning of the end.

Question 18

Parallel Structure

Answer 18

The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
EXP: Her children like to swim, hike, and ride dirt bikes.

Question 19

Paratactic Sentence

Answer 19

Simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences.
EXP: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Question 20

Parody

Answer 20

A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style.
EXP: SNL

Question 21

Periodic

Answer 21

Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements.
EXP: When the cafe is too crowded, I work at home.

Question 22

Personification

Answer 22

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
EXP: The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture.

Question 23

Plot

Answer 23

The series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline.
EXP: fight between harry potter and Voldemort

Question 24

Exposition

Answer 24

Introduces characters, situations, and settings.
EXP: First meet Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit.

Question 25

Rising Action

Answer 25

Complications in conflict and situations
EXP: Protagonist going on a journey to solve a mystery or crime

Question 26

Climax

Answer 26

That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest.
EXP: When the hero saves the princess, discovers the buried treasure, or slays the dragon.

Question 27

Resolution

Answer 27

The conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled.
EXP: tehe

Question 28

Point of view

Answer 28

The vantage point from which the writer tells the story

Question 29

First person POV

Answer 29

One of the characters tell the story.
EXP: I heard the monster’s growl from somewhere in the woods.

Question 30

Third person POV

Answer 30

An unknown narrator tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
EXP: Jason used his pocket money to buy himself comic books

Question 31

Omniscient POV

Answer 31

An omniscient or all-knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. Instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters.
EXP: As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end.

Question 32

Objective POV

Answer 32

A narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.
EXP: water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

Question 33

Polysyndeton

Answer 33

Sentences which uses a conjunction with No commas to separate the items in a series.
EXP: Instead of X, Y, and Z - results in X and Y and Z

Question 34

Protagonist

Answer 34

The central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action.
EXP: Snow white

Question 35

Pun

Answer 35

A “play on words” based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.
EXP: We had breakfast in the town of Soda, pop. 1001 - By abbreviating “Population” to “pop” this sentence makes a play on words with “soda pop.”