Literary Devices #3

Question 1

synecdoche

Answer 1

uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part

Question 2

farce

Answer 2

a genre of comedy that uses highly exaggerated and funny situations solely aimed entertaining with crude jokes, ludicrous behavior, and physical comedy

Question 3

archaism

Answer 3

the deliberate use of old-fashioned language (makes the tone serious and come across as wise)

Question 4

canto

Answer 4

the major division of a poem (chapters of a long, epic poem)

Question 5

prosody

Answer 5

the study of poetic meter, rhythm, cadence

Question 6

haiku

Answer 6

a Japanese form of poetry, 3 unrhymed lines; five, seven, five syllables

Question 7

metonomy

Answer 7

a metaphorical substitution

Question 8

consonance

Answer 8

repetition of a consonant sound

Question 9

elegy

Answer 9

a lyric poem that laments and honors the dead or a loss

Question 10

paradox

Answer 10

a seemingly contradictory statement that holds truth (resist everything but temptation)

Question 11

lampoon

Answer 11

a crude, often bitter, satire ridiculing the physical appearance or character of a person

Question 12

refrain

Answer 12

a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem

Question 13

hyperbole

Answer 13

an extreme exageration

Question 14

historical

Answer 14

play based on historical figures or events, but has fictional aspects

Question 15

free verse

Answer 15

poetry that does not have a set pattern of regular rhythm and rhyme

Question 16

epizeuxis

Answer 16

repetition of the same word or phrase in immediate succession for emphasis