Literary Techniques for Prose (Other)

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase e.g. “…o brawling love, o loving hate, o anything, of nothing first created!”

Question 3

Paradox

Answer 3

A contradiction or dilemma

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Question 5

Situation Irony

Answer 5

Contrast between what we expect to happen and what really happens

Question 6

Dramatic Irony

Answer 6

A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character

Question 7

Connotation

Answer 7

All the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests

Question 8

Irony

Answer 8

A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean.

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

Repetition of consonant sounds (creates mood)

Question 10

Verbal Irony

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.