Unit One Test

Question 1

Cacophony

Answer 1

The use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sound

Question 2

Conceit

Answer 2

A type of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two dissimilar things

Question 3

Euphony

Answer 3

The use of words whose sounds are pleasant and musical to the ear

Question 4

Figurative language

Answer 4

An artful deviation from literal speech or normal word order

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the sense perceptions in order to create an impression

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

In a restrictive definition is the stated or implied equivalence of two things (life is a race= stated, the race of life= implied)

Question 7

The __________ of a metaphor is the original subject being described

Answer 7

Tenor

Question 8

The __________ of the metaphor is the image the tenor is being compared to

Answer 8

Vehicle

Question 9

An _________________ is the a metaphor in which the tenor remains unstated

Answer 9

Implied metaphor

Question 10

An___________________ is a metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison

Answer 10

Extended metaphor

Question 11

An ___________ is a complex type of extended metaphor

Answer 11

Allegory

Question 12

Metonymy

Answer 12

Expression in which related thing stands for the thing itself (lands or kingdom belonging to the crown)

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

Seeming contradiction

Question 14

Parallelism

Answer 14

Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses or sentences

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

Gives human characteristics to objects,ideas,abstractions, or animals

Question 16

Pun

Answer 16

A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but different in meaning

Question 17

Repetition

Answer 17

The act of creating patterns by repeating not only by sound but also words, lines, meter, or sytax

Question 18

Simile

Answer 18

Type of metaphor using words: like, as, if

Question 19

Synecdoche

Answer 19

Expression in which a part stands for the whole

referring to 50 sails as 50 ships

Question 20

Theme

Answer 20

A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature

The core mark of great writing is theme

Question 21

Functions of imaginative comparisons

Answer 21

?They draw out the readers emotions
?They add depth to a writers message
?they provide certain symmetry to a writers message

Question 22

What distinguishes a simile from a metaphor?

Answer 22

A simile is a type of metaphor comparing two things using the words like,as, as if

Question 23

Astrophe

Answer 23

A speaker or writers directly addressing an absent person, abstraction or intimate object