Test 1

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

The choice and use of words and phrase that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

The literal or dictionary meaning of a word

Question 3

Connotation

Answer 3

The interpretive level or a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A direct comparison between dissimilar things. “Your eyes are stars” is an example.

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. An example: Wordworth’s “the sea that bares her bosom to the moon.”

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

A literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation also applies to the original circumstance. It is the comparison between to different items.

Question 7

Paradox

Answer 7

A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Question 9

Irony

Answer 9

The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The different between what appears to be and what is actually true.

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. On a physical level, ____ uses terms related to the five senses; we refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory. For example, a rose may present visual ____ while also representing the color in a woman’s cheek’s.

Question 11

Syntax

Answer 11

The grammatical structure of prose and poetry.

Question 12

Tone

Answer 12

Similar to mood, ____ describes the author’s attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both.

Question 13

Mood

Answer 13

Two distinct technical meanings in English writing. The first meaning is grammatical and deals with verbal units and a speaker’s attitude. Second meaning is literary, meaning the prevailing atmosphere and emotional aura of a work.

Question 14

Difference between tone and mood

Answer 14

Tone is the writer’s attitude toward the subject they are writing of. Mood is the feeling that the reader gets when reading a work.

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

Repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”