Literary Devices

Question 1

Tone

Answer 1

Attitude of the narrarator or speaker

Question 2

Atmosphere

Answer 2

The way the author uses setting, objects, or internal thoughts of characters to create emotion, mood, or experience for the reader

Question 3

Mood

Answer 3

The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader

Question 4

Diction

Answer 4

Word choice

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A direct comparison of an object to something else

Question 6

Similie

Answer 6

Indirect comaparison of an object to something else

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Human-like description of a non-human object

Question 8

Visual imagery

Answer 8

Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight

Question 9

Dramatic irony

Answer 9

Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

Question 10

Juxstaposition

Answer 10

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Question 11

Modality

Answer 11

Level of certainty of language

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Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

A reference to something outside of the text

Question 13

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 13

The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature

Question 14

Alliteration

Answer 14

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 15

Cacophony

Answer 15

Harsh sounds

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Question 17

Repetition

Answer 17

Words/phrases that can be repeated

Question 18

Enjambment

Answer 18

A run-on of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

Question 19

Caesura

Answer 19

A pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

An exaggeration

Question 21

Paradox

Answer 21

A statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

A combination of contradictory terms

Question 22

Antithesis

Answer 22

A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses

Question 23

Syntax

Answer 23

An arrangement of words in phrases and sentences

Question 24

Rhetorical Question

Answer 24

A question asked merely for effect with no answeres expected

Question 25

Internal monologue

Answer 25

Private sensations, thoughts, and emotions of a character

Question 25

Foil character

Answer 25

A character who is used as a contrast to another character

Question 26

Characterisation

Answer 26

Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveals a sense of a character's personality to the reader

Question 27

Imperative language

Answer 27

An authoritative command

Question 28

Voice

Answer 28

Perspective of the narrator or speaker

Question 29

Auditory imagery

Answer 29

Details that appeal to the sense of sound

Question 30

Olfactory imagery

Answer 30

Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell

Question 31

Kinesthetic imagery

Answer 31

Language that creates a sense of motion

Question 32

Symbol

Answer 32

Something that stands for an abstract idea

Question 33

Assonance

Answer 33

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 34

Consonance

Answer 34

Repetition of consonant sounds

Question 35

Sibilance

Answer 35

Hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh

Question 36

Rhyme

Answer 36

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

Question 37

Anaphora

Answer 37

The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 38

Listing

Answer 38

List of words/phrases

Question 39

Endstop

Answer 39

The poetic line ends with a punctuation mark

Question 40

Stanza length

Answer 40

Legnth of a stanza

Question 41

Line break

Answer 41

End of line of poetry

Question 42

Verbal irony

Answer 42

Saying one thing but meaning another

Question 43

Asyndeton

Answer 43

Leaving out conjuctions between words, phrases, clauses

Question 44

Polsysyndeton

Answer 44

Deliberate use of many conjuctions

Question 45

Dramatic monologue

Answer 45

A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener