Literary Devices

Question 1

polysyndeton

Answer 1

conjunctions between clauses

Question 2

asyndeton

Answer 2

no conjunctions between clauses

Question 3

synecdoche

Answer 3

whole represented by parts / parts represented by whole

Question 4

metonymy

Answer 4

naming something via its attributes

Question 5

caesura

Answer 5

a short break IN POETRY (-)

Question 6

end-stopped poetry

Answer 6

pause @ end of line

Question 7

enjambment

Answer 7

pause @ middle, run-on ideas

Question 8

epithet

Answer 8

using a quality to describe the actual thing

Question 9

euphemism

Answer 9

nice way of saying something bad

Question 10

juxtaposition

Answer 10

contrasting ideas, side-by-side

Question 11

Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 11

octave (situation, question) + volta (turn) + sestet (solution)

Question 12

English/Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 12

quatrains + rhymed couplet

Question 13

colloquialism

Answer 13

vernacular, slang

Question 14

telegraphic sentences

Answer 14

concise sentences with 5 words or less

Question 15

parentheses

Answer 15

used to show personality

Question 16

direct address

Answer 16

addressing the reader

Question 17

irony

Answer 17

something with 2 levels of meaning

Question 18

verbal irony

Answer 18

something stated other than what is expected

Question 19

rhyme/meter

Answer 19

accentuates what you’re trying to say

Question 20

syllogism

Answer 20

transitive property, with words

Question 21

scansion

Answer 21

counting syllables to assign rhyme and meter

Question 22

foil

Answer 22

a lesser character that draws out characteristics of a main character

Question 23

analogy

Answer 23

expression of a relationship between 2 objects

Question 24

double entendre

Answer 24

a word or phrase with 2 meanings

Question 25

paradox

Answer 25

two ideas that oppose each other logically

Question 26

zoomorphism

Answer 26

an object that has animal-like traits

Question 27

apostrophe

Answer 27

a direct address IN POETRY (can be to an inanimate object)

Question 28

litotes

Answer 28

use of double negatives to suggest a lukewarm feeling

Question 29

alliteration

Answer 29

use of repetitive initial consonant sounds for emphasis

Question 30

assonance

Answer 30

repetition of vowel sounds (within word)

Question 31

consonance

Answer 31

repetition of a consonant (within word)

Question 32

concrete diction

Answer 32

diction concerned with physical things, properties, characteristics

Question 33

abstract diction

Answer 33

diction concerned with intangibles : ideas, feelings, emotion

Question 34

anaphora

Answer 34

repetition of initial sentence structure

Question 35

satire

Answer 35

mocks human foibles and vices with comedy

Question 36

direct satire

Answer 36

1st person narrator addresses a specific audience who is expected to sympathize

Question 37

indirect satire

Answer 37

the indictment of the character’s vices and follies is implied by simply representing their thoughts, words, and actions, sometimes with an intrusive third-person narrator

Question 38

Horatian satire

Answer 38

light, tolerant, and urbane

Question 39

Juvenalian satire

Answer 39

dark, harsh and censorious