Literary Terms and Techniques

Question 1

Imagery

Answer 1

Descriptive languages that re-creates sensory experience

Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, Tactile

Question 2

Mixed Metaphor

Answer 2

Inconsistent mixture of two or more metaphors

“Lets set sail and get this show on the road”

Question 3

Dead Metaphor

Answer 3

Overused metaphor

“the eye of the storm”

Question 4

Extended Metaphor

Answer 4

Metaphor developed over several lines or through entirety of poem

Question 5

Synecdoche

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Figure of speech which a part of something is used to represent the whole.

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

figure of speech in which contrasting or opposite ideas are presented in parallel form

“I long and dread to close”

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

Deliberate over exaggeration or over statement

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

figure of speech where non-human objects are given human characteristics

Question 9

Irony

Answer 9

contrast between expectation and reality. Dramatic, verbal or situational Irony

Question 10

Rhetorical Question

Answer 10

Questions asked for a purpose outside of information

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Figure of speech that fuses contradictory ideas

“freezing fire”

Question 12

Allusion

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a reference to a specific person, place or event that is easily recognised

Question 13

Symbol

Answer 13

object or concept which represents larger ideas

Question 14

Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds or similar sounding words

“The birds fire-fangled feathers dangle down”

Question 15

Assonance

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Repetition of identical or similar sounding vowels

Question 16

Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables

Question 17

Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive line or sentence

Question 18

Ellipses

Answer 18

…

Question 19

Parallelism

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Phrases with grammatically similar structures or repetitions to accentuate ideas

Question 20

Onomatopeia

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Sound effects

“Thump-thump-thump”

Question 21

Allegory

Answer 21

a story or poem with a hidden or underlying meaning

Question 22

Ambiguity

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Deliberately suggesting conflicting and different meanings in a work

Question 23

Analogy

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Comparison of two things to show how they are alike

Question 24

Anecdote

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Brief story told to illustrate a point or reveals characteristic of individual character

Question 25

Anastrophe

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Inversion of logical sentence structure to an order which creates more emphasis

Question 26

Antimetabole

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Figure of speech where clause from first half is flipped and repeated in second half of sentence

“fair is foul and foul is fair”

Question 27

Antihero

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Main character who lacks typical main character energy

Tyler Durden???

Question 28

Anthropomorphism

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Human characteristics attributed to an animal

The tortoise and The hare

Question 29

Asyndeton

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commas with no conjunctions, basically listing but creates more emphasis

Question 30

Cacophony

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Dissonant sounds in a line or passage
k, t, b, g, d and p

Question 31

Caesura

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a pause
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for effect

Question 32

Catharsis

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Aristotle’s word to describe fear and pity of audience for downfall of hero

The entirety of Romeo and Juliet ig

Question 33

Characterisation

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process by which writer reveals personality of character

Question 34

Chiasmus

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Grammar is reversed like antimetabole but not

“I ran away quickly” - “speedily, I fled”

Question 35

Colloquialism

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casual, informal language that some may call SLANG

Question 36

External Conflict

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conflict that occurs between two or more people

Question 37

Internal Conflict

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conflict between me and thyself

fight club????

Question 38

Connotation

Answer 38

blue

gives kinda sad vibes

Question 39

Crux

Answer 39

The most crucial line in poem, prose or text

Question 40

Diction

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Speakers choice of words

Question 41

Enjambment

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A line or a sentence that uses carries on and on without any pauses of any kind often leading to some sort of climax or not but its there for a reason

Question 42

Elegy

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a eulogy but instead of praising and commending the person who is dead we mourn them

Question 43

Epiphany

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lightbulb moment

Question 44

Epistrophe

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Anaphora but it happens at the end of the sentence

Question 45

Euphemism

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A word or phrase that sounds less offensive or more neutral

died - passed away

Question 46

Euphony

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Opposite of Cacophony, nice to hear

Question 47

Foil

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A character who acts as contrast to another character

Scar and Mufasa
Capitalism and communism

Question 48

Hypophora

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speaker answers his own question immediately after asking it

Question 49

Idiom

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Saying that has a different figurative meaning to its literal meaning

tiny violin

Question 50

Juxtaposition

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opposing words, ideas or phrases placed next to each other

Question 51

Metonymy

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figure of speech where a place, person or thing is closely associated with something else

“the pen is mightier than the sword”

Question 52

Microcosm

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A small world that stands for the larger one

Parasite and Lord of the flies

Question 53

Motif

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reoccurring idea, image, word or phrase which appears in the text which unify the work

Question 54

Polysyndeton

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Repetition of a number of conjunctions, one after the other without use of a comma

“we have men and arms and and planes and tanks”

Question 55

Stream of consciousness

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writer allows audience to hear characters inner though to reveal deeper understanding

Question 56

Synesthesia

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Writer presents an idea which appeals to more than one sense

“From what I’ve tasted of desire”

Question 57

Invective

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A tone of speech or writing which is denunciatory, abusive or vituperative

Question 58

Jargon

Answer 58

Set of words of phrases used by specific profession or trade