Literary Terms. G-M

Question 0

the major category into which a literary work fits (e.g. prose, poetry,and drama.)

Answer 0

Genre:

Question 1

refers to traditions for each genre

Answer 1

Generic conventions

Question 2

literally “sermon” or any serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral and spiritual advice.

Answer 2

Homily

Question 3

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Answer 3

Hyperbole

Question 4

The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstraction.

Answer 4

Imagery

Question 5

to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.

Answer 5

Infer

Question 6

an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language

Answer 6

Invective

Question 7

the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant

Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony

Answer 7

Irony

Question 8

A type of sentence in which the main ideas come first, followed by dependent grammatical units.

Answer 8

Loose Sentence

Question 9

A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggested some similarity

Answer 9

Metaphor

Question 10

from the greek “changed label”, the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.

Answer 10

Metonymy:

Question 11

grammatically , the verbal units and a speaker’s attitude

Answer 11

mood