Unit Two - Other Literary Techniques

Question 1

a passing reference, without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work or passage.

Answer 1

allusion

Question 2

a narrative in which the characters and their actions, and sometimes the setting, are contrived by the author to represent a currently significant event/issue

Answer 2

allegory

Question 3

divides a concept, idea, story, or plot into two equal and contradictory parts; or between two opposing groups.

Answer 3

dichotomy

Question 4

a technique wherein two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side to develop comparisons and contrasts

Answer 4

Juxtaposition