Literary devices

Question 1

a story with a hidden meaning (neigbours throwing rocks at each other – war of neighbouring countries)

Answer 1

allegory

Question 2

a sound at the beginning of the words

Answer 2

alliteration

Question 3

expression for something without mentioning it explicitly (stop being such a Scrooge!)

Answer 3

allusion

Question 4

comparison (Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get)

Answer 4

analogy

Question 5

different word order (I like potatoes -> Potatoes I like)

Answer 5

anastrophe

Question 6

giving non-human object person-like entities/traits (Beauty and the Beast – candle, clock, and teapot)

Answer 6

anthropomorphism

Question 7

words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, or sentences

Answer 7

anaphora

Question 8

addressing a reader or another person with no expectation of a reply

Answer 8

apostrophe

Question 9

image, character or pattern that reoccur throughout literature

Answer 9

archetype

Question 10

repetition in vowels (like alliteration, but with vowels)

Answer 10

assonance

Question 11

skipping of conjunctions (I came, I saw, I conquered)

Answer 11

asyndeton

Question 12

the author introduces their own opinion

Answer 12

authorial intrusion

Question 13

verse without rhyme

Answer 13

blank verse

Question 14

blend of inharmonious sounds

Answer 14

cacophony

Question 15

a stop in a verse (to be or not to be – that is the question)

Answer 15

caesura

Question 16

two clause verse, the second part reversed word order of first (when the going gets tough, the tough gets going)

Answer 16

chiasmus

Question 17

struggle by two opposing forces

Answer 17

conflict

Question 18

feelings or emotions connected with a word, beyond its actual meaning (I’m feeling blue)

Answer 18

connotation

Question 19

repetition of consonants

Answer 19

consonance

Question 20

literal meaning of a word

Answer 20

denotation

Question 21

illogical or surprising lack of similarity between two or more facts

Answer 21

discrepancy

Question 22

interpretation of a phrase in two different ways, one dirty or indecent

Answer 22

double entendre

Question 23

the clause ends in a different verse

Answer 23

enjambment

Question 24

sonetni venec

Answer 24

enveloping structure

Question 25

removal of an unstressed syllable in order for the rhyme to work

Answer 25

elision

Question 26

nickname (Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Bloody Mary)

Answer 26

epithet

Question 27

words repeat at the end of neighbouring clauses (anaphora-beginning)

Answer 27

epiphora

Question 28

an inoffensive term to replace a offensive one (he passed away, they made love,they let him go)

Answer 28

euphemism

Question 29

opposite of cacophony, pleasant sounds

Answer 29

euphony

Question 30

exaggeration (this bag weighs a ton!)

Answer 30

hyperbole

Question 31

rhyme within a verse

Answer 31

internal rhyme

Question 32

moves the reader to a point in the past of the narrative time.

Answer 32

flashback

Question 33

reversing the usual word order for emphasis (fair is foul, and foul is fair)

Answer 33

inversion

Question 34

hints or sighs for the future or the plot twist

Answer 34

foreshadowing

Question 35

different word order (only one word is changed) (Tall he stood above the ground)

Answer 35

hyperbaton

Question 36

two condradicting meanings of the same situation

Answer 36

irony

Question 37

putting two contrasting meanings of the same situation (all is fair in love and war, rich/poor, good/evil)

Answer 37

juxtaposition

Question 38

understatement, positive statement is expressed by negating its purpose (not bad, isn’t useless)

Answer 38

litotes

Question 39

comparison by directly relating one thing to another (She was a rock star at our business meet.)

Answer 39

metaphor

Question 40

a object that is connected with another object/word (your ride – your car

Answer 40

metonoymy

Question 41

an understatement

Answer 41

meiosis

Question 42

what a reader feels about the story, pulled from the elements within it

Answer 42

mood

Question 43

a repeated pattern – image, sound, word or symbol comes back again and again within the story

Answer 43

motif

Question 44

to accept uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

Answer 44

negative capability

Question 45

pronunciations of the sound they describe (woof, boom, pow, whoosh, wham, moo)

Answer 45

onomatopoeia

Question 46

opposite elements put together (controlled chaos, same difference, adult child, loving hate)

Answer 46

oxymoron

Question 47

statement that contradicts itself, must be true and untrue at same time (this statement is a lie, I must be cruel to be kind)

Answer 47

paradox

Question 48

repetition of grammatical elements in a place of writing to create harmonious effect (easy come, easy go)

Answer 48

parallelism

Question 49

a inanimate object is described in human terms (sun smiles, wind whispers, leaves dance in the wind)

Answer 49

personification

Question 50

perspective on which the story is told

Answer 50

point of view

Question 51

repeptitions of the same conjuction (neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night sways these couriers)

Answer 51

polysyndeton

Question 52

combination of two words (hangry, brunch, smog (smoke & fog), spork)

Answer 52

portmanteau

Question 53

play on words (Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a-salted)

Answer 53

pun

Question 54

pattern of the end rhymes in stanzas

Answer 54

rhyme scheme

Question 55

location and time frame in which the action of the narrative takes place

Answer 55

setting

Question 56

comparison with the use of “like, as” (those two are as different as night and day, he has a memory like a sieve)

Answer 56

simile

Question 57

kitica

Answer 57

stanza

Question 58

narrators provide readers with access to a characters thoughts by simply narrating them

Answer 58

stream of consciousness

Question 59

a storm brewing on the horizon

Answer 59

symbol

Question 60

a part refers to a whole

Answer 60

synecdoche

Question 61

one sense described by another (the sky sounded like piles of diamonds, the blueberry tasted round)

Answer 61

synaesthesia

Question 62

the underlying message or meaning of a work of literature

Answer 62

theme

Question 63

situation is donwplayed or presented as being less than what is true to the situation (We did not do well; I am delighted)

Answer 63

understatement

Question 64

literature should somehow be true to reality, images, people dialogue should be believable, plausible, authentic, lifelike

Answer 64

versimilitude

Question 65

avoidance of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as a work of speculative fiction

Answer 65

willing suspension ob disbelief