Literary terms (33)

Question 1

Comparison, without a word to compare
(ex: chaos is a friend of mine)

Answer 1

Methaphor

Question 2

Comparison, with a word to compare (as, such as, like)
(ex:s Quiet as a mouse)

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

A reference to something related to common knowledge in history or literature

Answer 3

Allusion

Question 4

The repetition of the first consonants sound at the beginning of a serie of followings. vowels sounds

Answer 4

Alliteration

Question 5

Repetition vowel sounds
(ex: In an hour, put the flour, with the flowers, while i shower.)

Answer 5

Assonance

Question 6

Giving human characteristics
(ex: The wind whispered in my ear.)

Answer 6

personnification

Question 7

contradiction, but kind of true, one sentence
(ex: Winners know how to lose)

Answer 7

Paradox

Question 8

2 contradictory one after the other
(ex: Burning cold)

Answer 8

oxymoron

Question 9

extreme exaggeration
(ex: I’m starving)

Answer 9

hyperbole

Question 10

saying less than it means
(ex: I’m just a little tired, but you slept 2 hours last night)

Answer 10

Understatement

Question 11

symbolic meanings
(ex: for colors)

Answer 11

symbolism

Question 12

play on words
(ex: A horse is a very stable animal)

Answer 12

pun

Question 13

using a softer term to describe something more mature
(ex: Gone to heaven, when someone died)

Answer 13

euphemisme

Question 14

Two phrases that are inverted
(ex: One should eat to live and not live to eat)

Answer 14

chiasmus

Question 15

Contrast between what is said and what it means, sarcasm
(ex: that is the ugliest skirt I’ve ever seen)

Answer 15

verbal irony

Question 16

Contrast between what a character thinks to be true and what we know is true
(ex: Romeo and juliet, when Romeo fakes being dead and Juliet really thinks he died)

Answer 16

Dramatic irony

Question 17

Contrast between what happens and what was expected
(ex: Titanic is unsinkable, naufrage le plus célèbre)

Answer 17

situational irony

Question 18

making fun of people by using silly or exaggerated language.

Answer 18

Satire

Question 19

imitates a particuliar writer, artist or genre. humour

Answer 19

Parody

Question 20

Replacing a word with a similar word
(ex: Crown, royal family)

Answer 20

metonymy

Question 21

comparison while using two different things that have the same purpose
(ex: Just as a sword is the weapon of of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer)

Answer 21

Analogy

Question 22

Characters
character that highlights the personality of the main character (in a good or bad way)

Answer 22

Foil

Question 23

concept we can find everywhere in literature, the reference
(ex: Romeo and Juliet is an archetype of impossible love)

Answer 23

Archetype