Literary Analysis

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

The choice and use of words and phrases in writing

Question 2

Voice

Answer 2

Form or format through which narrators tell their stories; Authors’s created by using sentence link word choice, tone, punctuation, and rhythm(distinct qualities that make a writer’s work unique)

Question 3

Style

Answer 3

Word patterns that create a certain effect on readers; specific styles are required for certain genres( how author writes)

Question 4

Tone

Answer 4

writer’s attitude towards the audience and subject

Question 5

Mood

Answer 5

feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing

Question 6

Imagery

Answer 6

use of vivid, highly descriptive words to appeal to the five senses

Question 7

Syntax

Answer 7

arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences

Question 8

nuance

Answer 8

subtle differences in word meaning and usage that result in different shades of meaning

Question 9

Humor

Answer 9

writing intended to evoke laughter or entertain

Question 10

Suspense

Answer 10

a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

Question 11

Pun

Answer 11

A joke using the different possible meaning of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings

Question 12

Dramatic Irony

Answer 12

a contradiction between what happens and what is expected;occurs when the audience is aware of something that a character or speaker is not

Question 13

Verbal Irony

Answer 13

a contradiction between what happens and what is expected;occurs when what is said is the exact opposite of what is meant

Question 14

Situational Irony

Answer 14

a contradiction between what happens and what is expected;occurs when something happens that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters and the audience

Question 15

Denotation

Answer 15

the meaning of a word as defined in a dictionary

Question 16

Connotation

Answer 16

emotions associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning

Question 17

Idiom

Answer 17

A commonly known phrase that has a figurative meaning different from his liberal meaning; Ex” break a leg!”

Question 18

Analogy

Answer 18

Makes a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike

Question 19

Figurative language

Answer 19

writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally;Ex , metaphor, personification, simile

Question 20

Allusion

Answer 20

reference to a well-known person, event place, literary work or work of art

Question 21

Symbol

Answer 21

Anything that stands for or represent something else

Question 22

Flashback

Answer 22

moves a reader from the present moment in a chronological or linear narrative to a scene in the past; usually explain the story or character with background information or memories

Question 23

Foreshadowing

Answer 23

Author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story; it helps create suspense

Question 24

Point of view

Answer 24

the type of narrator used to tell a story( 1st, 2nd, 3rd objective, 3rd limited, 3rd omniscient)

Question 25

Perspective

Answer 25

how a narrator perceives the events, places, and people in the story