Literary Devices

Question 1

Tone

Answer 1

Attitude of place, price of writing, situation, etc

Question 2

Satire

Answer 2

Humour to encode change

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

A story that can be interpreted to revel a hidden meaning

Question 4

Bildingsroman

Answer 4

A coming of age story

Question 5

Theme

Answer 5

The subject of a piece of writing

Question 6

Dramatic irony

Answer 6

The audience understands the story but the characters do not

Question 7

Situational irony

Answer 7

Involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended

Ex a fire station burns down

Question 8

Verbal irony

Answer 8

Says one thing but means another

Ex. Soft like a brick

Clear as dirt

Question 9

Biblical allusion

Answer 9

Reference to the bible

Adam and Eve in young good man brown

Question 10

Classical allusion

Answer 10

Greek or Roman legend

Question 11

Historical allusion

Answer 11

A reference to a person,place, thing, or idea or historical significance

Question 12

Topical allusion

Answer 12

Form of speech which can be a metaphor that holds significance to its audience

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

A figure of speech that compares one thing to another

Question 14

Imagery

Answer 14

Visually descriptive or figurative language

Question 15

Motif

Answer 15

A dominate feature/ idea

Question 16

Symbol

Answer 16

material object that represents something abstract

Question 17

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 17

When inanimate objects of nature reflect human emotions

Question 18

Pathos

Answer 18

A quality that evokes pity or sadness

Question 19

Metaphor

Answer 19

A word or phrase that makes a implicit, implied or hidden comparison between 2 things that are unrelated

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

Assign the qualities of a person to something that inst human or alive

Question 21

Hyperbole

Answer 21

Statements not meant to be taken literary

Question 22

Foreshadowing

Answer 22

A warning or indication of future events

Question 23

Foreboding

Answer 23

Fearful apprehension- feeling like something bad will happen

Question 24

Juxtaposition

Answer 24

Two things being seen together with contrasting effect

Question 25

Repetition

Answer 25

Repeating something that has already been said

Question 26

Assonance

Answer 26

The reptilian of the sound of a vowel

Question 27

Anomatopoe

Answer 27

A formation of a word from a sound associated with what it’s named

Question 28

Monologue

Answer 28

A long speech by one actor

Question 29

Enjambment

Answer 29

The continuation of a sentence without pause