Styliatic Devicea

Question 1

What is Alliteration

Answer 1

Repeat of initial consonant soud at the begging of words

Question 2

Consonance

Answer 2

Repated consonant sounds in words close together

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The reputation of the same vowel sound in words

Question 4

Repetation

Answer 4

Repeated qord or phrase

Question 5

Euphemism

Answer 5

Figure of speech in which the harsh or unpleasant fact is so state that it us harsh

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

Extreme exaggeration

Question 7

Understatement

Answer 7

When the severity or harshness of something is dismissed

Question 8

Rhetorical Question

Answer 8

A question used more as a statement for greater emphasis.

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

Description that appeals to the 5 senses

Question 10

Idiom

Answer 10

A word or group of words whose meaning is created from usage and not a definition of the words

Question 11

Verbal Irony

Answer 11

Stating the opposite

Question 12

Situational Irony

Answer 12

Contrast between what we think happens and what actually does

Question 13

Dramatic Irony

Answer 13

Implacation of a Situation, speech are understood by the audience

Question 14

Litotes

Answer 14

An understatement in which an idea is conveyed by the use of its opposite with a negative. Example not bad

Question 15

Metaphor

Answer 15

Not using like or as

Question 16

Simile

Answer 16

Using like or as

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

The sound of a word mimics to which it refers

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Joing two contradictory words or phrases

Question 19

Paradox

Answer 19

A statement that at first seems to be self-contradictory but which on closer inspection turns out to have a valid message.

Question 20

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 20

Projecting emotion of a character onto the environment.

Question 21

Personification

Answer 21

Giving human qualities to non-human things

Question 22

Apostrophe

Answer 22

To address a person that is not present

Question 23

Pun

Answer 23

A play on words

Question 24

Symbol

Answer 24

Words or images that signify more than they present

Question 25

Logos

Answer 25

Appeals to logic

Question 26

Pathos

Answer 26

Appeals to emotion

Question 27

Ethos

Answer 27

Appeals to authority

Question 28

Expository essay

Answer 28

Informative piece of writing

Question 29

Narrative writing

Answer 29

Story writing

Question 30

Persuasive essay

Answer 30

Convince readers of your view

Question 31

Literary analysis essay

Answer 31

Analyze a book

Question 32

Microscope

Answer 32

Exagrate the emotional impact

Question 33

Telescope

Answer 33

Minimize emotional impact.

Question 34

Relief theory of humor

Answer 34

Alowing us to face our fears ,release nervous energy, and overcome inhibitions

Question 35

Superiority theory of humor

Answer 35

We laugh, and it makes us feel better about ourselves.

Question 36

Surprise theory of humor

Answer 36

We laugh at our perception of a situation suddenly changes