Literary Terms Pt. 1

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Word replacing another word from earlier in the sentence.

Question 2

Aphorism

Answer 2

A general truth.

Question 3

Dactyl

Answer 3

One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

Question 4

Denouement

Answer 4

When everything comes together in the end.

Question 5

Invective

Answer 5

Highly critical language

Question 6

Litotes

Answer 6

Ironical understatement

Question 7

Malopropism

Answer 7

Using a word in place of another word that sounds similar

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

One name to symbolize a whole

Question 9

Palindrome

Answer 9

Word is spelled the same forwards and backwards.

Question 10

Parallelism

Answer 10

Successive verbal constructions that correspond and grammatical structure, sound, meter or meaning.

Question 11

Pastoral

Answer 11

Literature portraying ideal farm life.

Question 12

Pedantic

Answer 12

Patronizing or overly precise.

Question 13

Peroration

Answer 13

Concluding part of a speech

Question 14

Polemic

Answer 14

A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something

Question 15

Polysyndeton

Answer 15

Repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect

Question 16

Prosaic

Answer 16

Lacking poetic beauty

Question 17

Romanticism

Answer 17

Movement in the arts in the 18th century emphasizing inspiration and subjectivity

Question 18

Solecism

Answer 18

Grammatical mistake in speech or writing

Question 19

Synecdoche

Answer 19

Figure of speech were apart represents the whole or vice versa

Question 20

Synesthesia

Answer 20

Making ideas appeal in more than one sense

Question 21

Villanelle

Answer 21

A 19 line poem with 2 rhymes and a bunch of more requirements

Question 22

Chaismus

Answer 22

Verbal pattern with the second-half reinforcing the first

Question 23

Allegory

Answer 23

A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a good meeting, typically moral or political

Question 24

Antithesis

Answer 24

Means opposite end is used as a literary device to put two contrasting ideas together

Question 25

Asyndeton

Answer 25

The omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence

Question 26

Assonance

Answer 26

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 27

Anachronism

Answer 27

Something that belongs to a time period where it is not from.

Question 28

Antecedent

Answer 28

Word, phrase or clause referred to by pronoun.

Question 29

Archetype

Answer 29

Recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, mythology

Question 30

Bathos

Answer 30

Annoying pathos

Question 31

Ad hominem argument

Answer 31

Attacking person instead of argument

Question 32

Colloquialism

Answer 32

Informal word or phrase in literature (slang)

Question 33

Conceit

Answer 33

Metaphor that compared 2 very unlike things in a clever way

Question 34

Diction

Answer 34

Word choice

Question 35

Ellipsis

Answer 35

Omission of a word for a stylistic effect