Literary Standards - Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Appeals to a range of people, timely and timeless

Answer 1

Universality/Universal Appeal

Question 2

Endures time (20+ years)

Answer 2

Permanence

Question 4

Peculiar way of writing

Answer 4

Style

Question 6

Informs us about past or present world

Answer 6

Intellectual value

Question 8

Reflection of one’s soul

Answer 8

Poetry

Question 9

“The clear expression of mixed feelings.”

Answer 9

W.H. Auden

Question 10

Carries an emotional power, captures readers imagination

Answer 10

Suggestiveness

Question 11

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion …..”

Answer 11

T.S. Eliot

Question 12

Words or phrases that has an alternative meaning than the literal one

Answer 12

Figures of speech

Question 13

Several phrases or verses begin with the same word/s

Answer 13

Anaphora

Question 14

Repetition of vowel sounds in close words

Answer 14

Assonance

Question 15

“A way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.”

Answer 15

Robert Frost

Question 16

Moral of the story, hells us become better people

Answer 16

Spiritual value

Question 17

What is the FOS used for: “passing away”

Answer 17

Euphemism

Question 18

What is the FOS used for: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

Answer 18

Anaphora

Question 19

What is the FOS used for: “For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore.”

Answer 19

Assonance

Question 20

A mild term that substitutes for a harsher one

Answer 20

Euphemism

Question 21

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

Answer 21

Hyperbole

Question 22

Contrast between what is said and what is meant / appearance and reality

Answer 22

Irony

Question 23

3 kinds of irony

Answer 23

Verbal
Situational
Dramatic

Question 24

Repetition of beginning sounds of neighboring words

Answer 24

Alliteration

Question 25

What is the FOS used for: “heart of stone”

Answer 25

Metaphor

Question 26

Word that sounds like what it is describing

Answer 26

Onomatopoeia

Question 27

What is the FOS used for: “whoosh whoosh”

Answer 27

Onomatopoeia

Question 28

Imagery of tasting

Answer 28

Gustatory

Question 30

Two contradictory words use together

Answer 30

Oxymoron

Question 31

What is the FOS used for: “small crowd”

Answer 31

Oxymoron

Question 32

What is the FOS used for: “the wind howled”

Answer 32

Personification

Question 33

Imagery of feeling

Answer 33

Tactile

Question 34

What is the FOS used for: “I could do this forever”

Answer 34

Hyperbole

Question 36

Comparison using like/as

Answer 36

Simile

Question 37

Giving human qualities to abstract things

Answer 37

Personification

Question 38

Overused expression that loses its originality

Answer 38

Cliché

Question 39

Imagery of seeing

Answer 39

Visual

Question 40

Imagery of hearing

Answer 40

Aural

Question 42

Well written, beautifully crafted, appeals to senses

Answer 42

Artistry

Question 43

Imagery of smelling

Answer 43

Olfactory

Question 44

What is the FOS used for: “She sells seashells on the seashore”

Answer 44

Alliteration

Question 45

Not called by its own name but something associated with it

ex. White house - american administration

Answer 45

Metonymy

Question 46

Feeling or idea that triggers imagination

Answer 46

Imagery

Question 47

A part represents the whole or vice versa

ex. Wheels - car, plastic - credit cards

Answer 47

Synecdoche

Question 52

Compares two unlike things or ideas

Answer 52

Metaphor