Test 1

Question 0

Antithesis

Answer 0

The expression of contrasting thoughts in parallel grammatical form.

Question 1

Figure

Answer 1

An artful deviation from the plain way of saying something.

Question 2

Alliteration & Assonance

Answer 2

The repetition of sounds in certain words at corresponding positions in a sentence.

Question 3

Slant Rhyme

Answer 3

When alliteration & assonance occur in poetry.

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

A mode of expression in which the intended meaning differs from the literal meaning.

Question 5

Sarcasm

Answer 5

Irony in the form of mock praise.

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

An ironic overstatement.

Question 7

Understatement

Answer 7

When a statement affirms something by denying the contrary.

Question 8

Litotes

Answer 8

A type of ironic understatement.

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

The expression of truth or belief in the form of apparent contradiction.

Question 10

Situational Irony

Answer 10

A paradoxical circumstance or outcome in a work of literature.

Question 11

Suspense/Surprise

Answer 11

When a writer withholds information from the reader, creating a sense of curiosity with the use of suggestive detail.

Question 12

Anticlimax

Answer 12

When a writer brings the reader down abruptly to reality, humorously mocking his expectations.

Question 13

Dramatic Irony

Answer 13

When a writer provides the reader with information about the situation or outcome that has been concealed from a character, creating a contrast between the reader’s knowledge and the character’s ignorance. This causes the character’s words to appear in an absurd light.

Question 14

Satire

Answer 14

Corrective ridicule in literature.

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

A reference in a work of literature to something outside it.

Question 16

Analogical expression

Answer 16

The use of analogical figures in literature for imaginative expression.

Question 17

Imagery

Answer 17

A word or phrase that produces a sense impression.

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

A simple expression of one thing in terms of another.

Question 19

Metonymy

Answer 19

A substitution of a related thing for the thing itself.

Question 20

Synecdoche

Answer 20

Substitution of a part for the whole.

Question 21

Reification

Answer 21

Giving physical existence to an abstraction.

Question 22

Animism

Answer 22

The giving of animal traits to something inanimate.

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

The giving of human traits to something nonhuman.

Question 24

Apostrophe

Answer 24

A speaking in direct address to something physically nonexistent or absent as if it were able to respond.

Question 25

Analogy

Answer 25

An extended simile that joins tenor and vehicle by a linking word or phrase.

Question 26

Allegory

Answer 26

An extended metaphor, which usually forms a story with a literal and an implied meaning.

Question 27

Symbol

Answer 27

An analogical figure related to metaphor, with a symbol meaning something in addition to itself.

Question 28

Parallelism

Answer 28

Gives similar grammatical structure to adjacent sentence elements, phrases, clauses, or entire statements.

Question 29

Balance

Answer 29

Simple grammatical parallelism

Question 30

Antithesis

Answer 30

When grammatical parallelism contrasts ideas

Question 31

Chiasmus

Answer 31

When the elements of the first half of a construction appear in reverse order in the second half.

Question 32

Alliteration

Answer 32

Repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby stressed

Question 33

Assonance

Answer 33

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables.

Question 34

Consonance

Answer 34

The repetition of terminal consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables.

Question 35

Rhyme

Answer 35

A repetition in rhyming syllables of all sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in preceding consonant sounds.