Literary Elements

Question 1

Literary Elements/Devices

Answer 1

Different devices of language and story telling writers use to convey meaning and create personal style

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

1. What: repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sentence, paragraph or line of poetry
2. Why: used to focus reader’s attention on particular section of text/emphasis, create rhythm/sound and mood

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

1. What: Reference to a person, place, event, something in history, artwork or other literary work
2. Why: connects the content in the text with the world, calls to mind ideas and emotions associated with a well known event or work, this all contribute to what the author wants to convey

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

1. What: Work that’s not appropriate for its time setting

2. Why: usually unintentional in fiction and can show the writers carelessness and can disinterest the reader

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Two opposite idea are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting (different) effect

Used to examine pros/cons on the particular subject discussed and bring forth judgement

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

1. Repetition of vowel sounds

2. Used to draw attention to or create rhythm

Question 7

Denotation

Answer 7

Dictionary meaning of a word/literal meaning

Question 8

Diction

Answer 8

1. Choice of words and style of language used

2. Used to create tone

Question 9

Euphemism

Answer 9

Inoffensive phrase used to replace a more direct expression. Example: saying someone passed on instead of died

Question 10

Foreshadowing

Answer 10

Author gives clues to what will happen later in a narrative

Why: adds dramatic tension, anticipation, creates suspense, convey info on what’s to come

Question 11

Different types of figure of speech

Answer 11

Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, irony, oxymoron, metonomy, antithesis, euphemism and idiom

II SHAMPOO ME

Question 12

Heroic Couplet

Answer 12

Form in poetry with pairs of rhyming lines with 10 syllables per line

Pope, Samuel Johnson (Jackson), John D used it most

Mostly was used to talk about the trials and adventures of the hero

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

An illogical exaggerated statement . Example: so thirsty I could drink the ocean dry

Question 14

Idiom

Answer 14

Mean one thing on their own but when put together they mean something different

Example go fly a kite, last camels straw

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

Events or words said are opposite of what’s actually going on.

Verbal: say one thing and mean something
else (sarcasm). Why? Usually used to reveal character flaws

Situational: a situation in reality much different than the character or characters think. Why? Moral lesson

Dramatic: the audience is aware of something the characters don’t know. Why? Stimulate emotions in reader because knows what awaits

Question 16

Malapropism

Answer 16

A word mistaken for another word with a similar sound. Usually used by a comic character

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

Words that imitate sound like crash, ring, buzz

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Phrase made up of words that are opposite but still have meaning

Question 19

Meter

Answer 19

Way of measuring rhythm in formal verse. Example would be 
Anapestic --/
Dactylic /--
Iambic: -/ 
Trochaic /-

Present vs present

Question 20

Metonomy

Answer 20

A word substituted for another word it is somehow linked or closely associated with

Question 21

2nd POV

Answer 21

Speak to the reader directly so you use the words you and your

Question 22

3rd POV

Answer 22

Person outside the story is narrator

Uses them, they, she, her, he, him, it

Question 23

Omniscient

Answer 23

Narrator knows the thoughts of all characters

Question 24

Plot

Answer 24

1. Exposition: setting and characters introduced
2. Rising action: main problem or conflict arises
3. Climax: peek of the story, tension
4. Falling action: problem winds down
5. Resolution: resolving of the problem

Question 25

Synechdoche

Answer 25

part stands for a whole. Example: referring to an old man as a graybeard

Question 26

Apostrophe

Answer 26

Someone addresses an abstract concept or inanimate object as if it were alive

Question 27

Anaphora

Answer 27

Repeating words at the beginning of a neighboring sentence