Literary Terms

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

the way in which words are used in speech or writing

Question 2

Syntax

Answer 2

the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 3

Extended metaphor

Answer 3

Conceit: comparison woven throughout a text to create a unifying image

Question 4

Verbal irony

Answer 4

Notes

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

A quality, feeling, or attitude expressed by the words that someone uses in speaking or writing

Question 6

Anecdote

Answer 6

A short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence

Question 7

Repitition

Answer 7

Repeating something

Question 8

Parallelism

Answer 8

repeated syntactical (relating to syntax, the way of writing something or writing something for a purpose) similarities introduced for rhetorical effect

Question 9

Inversion

Answer 9

Change in the position and order of things of what they were (ex words)

Question 10

Plain style

Answer 10

Without imagery and metaphors

Question 11

Rhyming couplets

Answer 11

Couplets that rhyme

2 lines that end in similar sounds

Question 12

Poetic meter

Answer 12

Rhyme scheme and pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
Ex iambic pentameter

Question 13

Iambic pentameter

Answer 13

Shakespeare’s thing

10 syllables that alternate between long and short, accented and unaccented

Question 14

Iambic tetrameter

Answer 14

Notes

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly