Literary Terms #1

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

a reference to some famous person, place, or thing in history

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

a way of addressing something or someone not normally spoken to

Question 3

Cliche

Answer 3

an overused concept in media

Question 4

Denouncement

Answer 4

the final part of a narrative, usually when the outcome of a story is revealed

Question 5

Diction

Answer 5

choice of words

Question 6

Didactic

Answer 6

intended to teach something, particularly in having moral instruction as a motive

Question 7

Empathy

Answer 7

a wide range of psychological capacities that are thought of as being central for constituting humans as social creatures

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

an exaggerative figure of speech

Question 9

Malapropism

Answer 9

an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word, often used for comedic effect

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

a comparison between two non-similar things

Question 11

Narrator

Answer 11

speaker in which the story is told

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings. “deafening silence”

Question 13

Parallelism

Answer 13

repetition of words to produce emphasis

Question 14

Pathos

Answer 14

pity

Question 15

Personification

Question 16

Realism

Question 17

Rhetorical Question

Question 18

Romance

Answer 18

genre of writing of writing dealing with history and legends, like chivalry and love are

Question 19

Satire

Answer 19

wit to attack human folly

Question 20

Simile

Question 21

Understatement

Answer 21

implying more then is actually said