Literary Terms

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

a reference to another book, person, event, etc.

Question 3

Appeal

Answer 3

ethos, pathos, logos

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

address to an absent or imaginary person

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

repetition of a vowel sound

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

absence of conjunctions in a sentence

Question 7

Characterization

Answer 7

how a character is portrayed in a piece

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word

Question 9

context

Answer 9

information provided to give the reader background

Question 10

diction

Answer 10

the choice and use of words

Question 11

dramatic irony

Answer 11

when the audience knows something the characters don’t

Question 12

ellipsis

Answer 12

omission of a word or phrase bc its implied in the text

Question 13

epistrophe

Answer 13

repetition of a word at the end of sentences

Question 14

ethos/pathos/logos

Answer 14

credibility, emotion, evidence

Question 15

euphemism

Answer 15

nice way to describe something unpleasant

Question 16

exclamation

Answer 16

sentence to explain extreme shock or emotion

Question 17

flashback

Answer 17

a scene set in a time earlier than the main story

Question 18

foreshadowing

Answer 18

predicting something before it happens

Question 19

hyperbole

Answer 19

an exaggerated statement

Question 20

idiom

Answer 20

common phrase not meant to be taken literally

Question 21

juxtaposition

Answer 21

2 contrasting or similar elements placed together in a sentence

Question 22

metaphor

Answer 22

comparison without using like or as

Question 23

onomatopoeia

Answer 23

words that imitate sounds

Question 24

oxymoron

Answer 24

phrase consisting of 2 contradictory terms

Question 25

paradox

Answer 25

statement that seems contradictory but its actually true

Question 26

personification

Answer 26

characterizing an object

Question 27

polysyndeton

Answer 27

repetition of conjunctions

Question 28

preposition

Answer 28

word that connects a noun or pronoun to another word in sentence

Question 29

pun

Answer 29

a joke

Question 30

rhetorical question

Answer 30

question not meant to be answered

Question 31

simile

Answer 31

comparison using like or as

Question 32

situational irony

Answer 32

outcome is very different to what is expected

Question 33

symbol

Answer 33

thing that stands for something else

Question 34

tone

Answer 34

writers attitude

Question 35

understatement

Answer 35

under- exaggerating something

Question 36

verbal irony

Answer 36

sarcasm