MCQ Literary terms Flashcards
Antithesis:
The exact opposite.
Catharsis:
Releasing the reader of strong emotions (pity, fear) by expressing them in art, usually tragedy.
Assonance:
Juxtaposition of similar vowel sounds.
Consonance:
Recurrence of consonant sounds.
Dramatic irony:
When the audience watching a play understands something the characters do not.
Situational irony:
When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected.
Verbal irony:
When the meaning to be understood is the opposite of the literal meaning of the words.
Chiasmus:
A literal figure in which grammatical construction or concepts are repeated in reverse order.
Anaphora:
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines.
Epistrophe:
The repetition of words or phrases at the end of a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines.
Zeugma:
The use of one word to modify two other words in two different ways.
Epithet:
A word or a phrase applied to a person or a thing to describe a quality.
A literal figure in which grammatical construction or concepts are repeated in reverse order.
Chiasmus
When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected.
Situational irony
Recurrence of consonant sounds.
Consonance
The exact opposite.
Antithesis
Releasing the reader of strong emotions (pity, fear) by expressing them in art, usually tragedy.
Catharsis
Juxtaposition of similar vowel sounds.
Assonance
The use of one word to modify two other words in two different ways.
Zeugma
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a group of sentences, clauses or poetic lines.
Anaphora
When the meaning to be understood is the opposite of the literal meaning of the words.
Verbal irony
When the audience watching a play understands something the characters do not.
Dramatic irony
A word or a phrase applied to a person or a thing to describe a quality.
Epithet
The repetition of words or phrases at the end of a group of sentences, clauses or poetic lines.
Epistrophe
