Literary Terms WWS

Question 0

Part of something

Answer 0

Synecdoche

Question 1

Substitution of a name attribute for that of the thing meant

Answer 1

Metonymy

Question 2

Use of more words or parts of words. Ex: black darkness

Answer 2

Pleonasm

Question 3

Two choices

Answer 3

Alliosis

Question 4

Omits conjunctions

Answer 4

Asyndeton

Question 5

Repetition of same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

Answer 5

Antistrophe

Question 6

Using many conjunctions

Answer 6

Polysyndeton

Question 7

Later part of sentence changes the meaning of the former part
Ex: war doesn’t change who is right just who is left

Answer 7

Paraprosdokian

Question 8

Double negative

Answer 8

Litotes

Question 9

Comparison of two things that are the direct opposite

Answer 9

Antithesis

Question 10

Repetition at the begging and end

Answer 10

Epanelepsis

Question 11

Persistent repetition

Answer 11

Epimone

Question 12

Grammatical structures repeated in reverse in the same form

Answer 12

Chiasmus

Question 13

A word referring to a word that came earlier in the sentence

Answer 13

Anaphora

Question 14

Repeating final words of one sentence

Answer 14

Anadiplosis