Style

Question 1

apostrophe

Answer 1

figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

Question 2

connotation

Answer 2

what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word’s overtones of meaning

Question 3

denotation

Answer 3

basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

Question 4

ekphrasis

Answer 4

poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words

Question 5

epigram

Answer 5

1) a short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation
2) a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement

Question 6

extended figure

Answer 6

a figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

Question 7

figurative language

Answer 7

language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally

Question 8

figure of speech

Answer 8

broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly a way of saying one thing and meaning another

Question 9

juxtaposition

Answer 9

positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast

Question 10

metaphor

Answer 10

figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unalike

Question 11

metonymy

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

Question 12

onomatopoeia

Answer 12

the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound

Question 13

personification

Answer 13

a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

Question 14

rhythm

Answer 14

any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

Question 15

sentimentality

Answer 15

unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality

Question 16

simile

Answer 16

a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.
comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems

Question 17

synecdoche

Answer 17

figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole.
in this class it is subsumed under the term metonymy

Question 18

syntax

Answer 18

word organization and order