Literary Devices

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

story used to represent a more general message about real life

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

series of words or phrases that all start with the same sound (typically contain ants)

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

error in the chronology or timeline of a text

Question 5

Anaphora

Answer 5

word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple sentences (we shall fight, listing numerous places)

Question 6

Anthropomorphism

Answer 6

when something nonhuman (animal, place, inanimate object) behaves in a human like way (mickey mouse)

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

juxtaposition of structurally parallel words for contrast (fight or flight)

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

form of personification, dead or absent are spoken to directly

Question 9

Asyndeton

Answer 9

no conjunctions (by the people, for the people)

Question 10

Colloquialism

Answer 10

language and slang, sense of realism

Question 11

Epigraph

Answer 11

author inserts a famous quotation and beginning of larger text, typically written by a different writer

Question 12

Epistrophe

Answer 12

similar to anaphora, but at the END of successive statement (no negro problem, no southern problem, no northern problem)

Question 13

Euphemism

Answer 13

when a more mild or indirect word or expression is used in place (i’m so sorry, but he didn’t make it)

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

statement is used to express an opposite meaning than the one literally expressed by it (verbal is when someone says something but means the opposite, situational irony is when something happens that’s the opposite of what was expected, dramatic irony is when the audience is aware of true intentions or outcomes

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

comparing the contrasting or two or more different ideas (usually used to help create a clearer picture of the characteristics of one object or idea by comparing it with those another) (it was the best of times, it was the worst best of time)

Question 16

Malapropism

Answer 16

incorrect word used in place of a word that has a similar sound (dance the flamingo /flamenco)

Question 17

Metonym

Answer 17

related word or phrase used substituted for actual thing referred (poetic or rhetorical effect, pen is mightier than the sword)

Question 18

Paradox

Answer 18

statement that appears illogical or self-contradictory, might be true ,oxymoron but phrase)

Question 19

POV

Answer 19

perspective (first person=i, second person=you, third=he/she/they, omniscient=narrator knows everything, including thoughts)

Question 20

Pun

Answer 20

play on words that have same sound but diverse meanings

Question 21

Rhyme

Answer 21

end rhyme=end of line, slant rhyme=close, internal rhyme=within the line, rhyme scheme=how we label/identify end patterns rhyme in poems ABAB

Question 22

Sarcasm

Answer 22

opposite what you mean, verbal irony, but put down

Question 23

Satire

Answer 23

genre of writing that criticizes something

Question 24

Soliloquy

Answer 24

monologue, speak aloud to themselves, show inner conflict/feelings