Literary Terms (Figurative Language)

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

The representation of one thing (idea, concept) by something else, usually concrete.

Animal farm, using animals to talk about political structures.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The repetition of the first letter or sound of a series of words.

Skibidi slicers with super sigmas

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

A reference to something well known

Biblical tales, Shakespears, political events, etc.

Question 4

Analogy

Answer 4

A comparison of similar things, often for the purpose of using something familiar to explain something unfamiliar

Using gamer terms to a gamer to explain calculus (idk)

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

The direct addressing of something as though it were living and present

like the guy talking to the skull in hamlet

Question 6

Aside

Answer 6

When actors speak to the audience, usually not being heard by other actors. Usually for comedy, or their own thoughts.

Deadpool

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables

They felt a big shake at the lake as they realized their fates were sealed.

Question 8

Cacaphony

Answer 8

Grade 8 band

Question 9

Cliche

Answer 9

Used so much that it’s become old and used

in conclusion…

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

Feelings associated to certain words

Skibidi (cringe), Discipline (my mom), pog (cool)

Question 11

Consonance

Answer 11

Repetition of the same consonants in words

I used a stick to hack the fickle vines away

ck sound

Question 12

Denotation

Answer 12

The specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its emotional associations

The kid was blue (I dunked him in blue paint)

Question 13

Dissonance

Answer 13

Grade 8 band

Question 14

Ellipsis

Answer 14

Omission of one or more words, but still presumable understood by the reader. Also used to show pauses, and trailing off sentencings.

Sticking out… for the rizzler

Question 15

Epithet

Answer 15

Used to to describe a person or thing based on certain characteristics

Alexander THE GREAT, Jesus THE SAVIOR

Question 16

Figure of speech

Answer 16

Language which departs from the standard construction, order and significance of words in order to convey special meaning or effect

Also includes stuff like similes, metaphors, oxymorons, etc.

When in Rome, do what the Romans do.

Question 17

Hyperbole

Answer 17

How my brother describes what I did to my parents after I did something wrong.

Question 18

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 18

Rhythm in poetry. 5x unstressed syllable to stressed syllable

Question 19

Imagery

Answer 19

try not to think about pink elephants

Question 20

Irony

Answer 20

A difference that a reader senses between the words that are spoken and what is actually true. There are 3 types:

Dramatic: When audience knows something that character does not
Verbal: Sarcasm
Situational: Difference between appearance and reality, or between what is and what would seem appropriate

Getting hit by an an ambulance

Question 21

Metaphor

Answer 21

Comparison between two different things, in which one is said to be the other

Trump is a pig

Question 22

Metonymy

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Substitution of one word for another word associated with it. Basically nicknames that we give titles (suits = lawyer, etc.)

Swearing fealty to the crown (the king)

Question 23

Metre

Answer 23

Rhythm of a poem. Pattern of the accented and unaccented syllables.

Question 24

Mood

Answer 24

general vibe, yknow?

Question 25

Onomatopoeia

Answer 25

krachow

Question 26

Oxymoron

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Two contradictory words are combined into a single expression

Beginning of the end, living dead

Question 27

Paradox

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Something that seems selc contradictory or absurd, but still kinda makes sense

Success is rooted in failure, I must be cruel to be kind, This statement is false, etc.

Question 28

Pathos

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The attempt to make readers feel sympathetic

My pet rock was run over by a car this morning smodge

Question 29

Personification

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Giving inanimate objects, animals, or ideas human-like qualities

Question 30

Poetic License

Answer 30

Ignoring regular english grammar rules to be cool in poetry

I am become death, destroyer of worlds

Question 31

Pun

Answer 31

Play on words that either identical or similar in sound but sharply different in meaning

Roy

Question 32

Rhetorical Question

Answer 32

Grammatically a question, but does not require answer.

Are you crazy? Who cares? (my b couldn’t think of any good ones)

Question 33

Rhyme

Answer 33

Roses are red, Violets are purpley, Poems are hard, Flurpity durpity

Question 34

Internal Rhyme

Answer 34

Rhymes on the same line

i’ve got flower power
gotta go take a shower (idk)

Question 35

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 35

Classified in alphabetical order, pattern of rhymes in a stanza or poem

Question 36

Rhythm

Answer 36

Movement having a regular repetition of beat, accent, stress, rise and fall, like music but worse

Question 37

Simile

Answer 37

A direct, expressed comparison between two things.

As graceful as a swan, as dull as a rock

Question 38

Soliloquy

Answer 38

When a character in a play is alone on stage and speaks their thoughts aloud

Question 39

Speaker

Answer 39

Ms. Bittner

Question 40

Symbol

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An object, person, situation, or action which has a literal meaning in the story or poem, but also suggests other meanings as well.

Literally just swans representing peace, olive branch which also symbolizes peace, and like 3 more.

Question 41

Synecdoche

Answer 41

A word describing a part of something to signify the whole, or the whole in place of one of it’s parts.

Trump built the walls bordering the US and Mexico (trump didn’t do it, but it still kinda makes sense)

Congress says that they don’t like mexicans (nah it’s just trump)

Question 42

Tone

Answer 42

General vibe of a writer to a subject.

Question 43

Undestatement

Answer 43

me saying “I could’ve studied a tiny bit more” after Mr. Ahn’s math test