Techniques

Question 1

Adynaton

Answer 1

Extreme Hyperbole

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

One surface meaning and a metaphorical interpretation consistent throughout the story

Question 3

Amphiboly

Answer 3

Ambiguity of meaning in a sentence caused by gramatical looseness

Question 4

Analogue

Answer 4

A word or thing that parallels another thing

Question 5

Antipophora

Answer 5

Asking a question and answers themself

Question 6

Antiphrasis

Answer 6

Use of a word in the opposite sense to proper denotation

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

Contrasting ideas by the use of opposite meanings

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

Repitition of similar vowels together to create euphony

Question 9

Asyndeton

Answer 9

Omission of words such as pronouns or shortness

Question 10

Aside

Answer 10

Short passage spoken in undertone to audience for a secrets sake

Question 11

Black comedy

Answer 11

Horrific, shocking and macabre jokes

Question 12

Catalexis (Shakespeare)

Answer 12

Omission of last syllable

Question 13

Circumlocution

Answer 13

Using lots of words when a few will do

Question 14

Dissonance

Answer 14

Cacophonous sounds in words/rhymes for effect

Question 15

Double entendre

Answer 15

A phrase with two meanings

Question 16

Dramatic Irony

Answer 16

Audience knows implication and meaning while characters do not

Question 17

Ekphrasis

Answer 17

Intense description of an object or painting (Mostly)

Question 18

Ellipsis

Answer 18

… (Trailing off)

Question 19

Euphemism

Answer 19

Substitution of a mild expression for a harsh and blunt one

Question 20

Imagery

Answer 20

Olfactory, Visual, Tactile, Auditory, gustatory

Question 21

Jargon

Answer 21

Specific vocabulary for a particular profession

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

Contradictory words and meanings for effect

Question 23

Palilogy

Answer 23

Repitition of words throughout a passage

Question 24

Polypopton

Answer 24

Repitition with different suffixes and prefixes (Love, Loved, Loves)