Quiz 9/22/22 Vocabulary

Question 1

speaker

Answer 1

the voice of the poem

Question 2

persona

Answer 2

an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 3

denotation

Answer 3

the literal meaning of a word

Question 4

connotation

Answer 4

the implied or associative meaning of a word

Question 5

juxtaposition

Answer 5

placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Question 6

paradox

Answer 6

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

Question 7

oxymoron

Answer 7

a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (e.g. happy sadness)

Question 8

shifts

Answer 8

indicate some kind of change, often in the speaker’s perspective

Question 9

irony

Answer 9

a contrast between expectation and reality

Question 10

verbal irony

Answer 10

a figure of speech in which what is said is opposite of what is meant

Question 11

situational irony

Answer 11

an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

Question 12

dramatic irony

Answer 12

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn’t

Question 13

hyperbole

Answer 13

an exaggeration

Question 14

understatement

Answer 14

the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

Question 15

synecdoche

Answer 15

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (e.g. hungry mouths to feed)