Vocab 1

Question 1

Recurring or emerging idea in work of literature.

Answer 1

Theme

Question 2

A comparison of two unlike objects using “like” or “as”

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

The stated or implied comparison of two dissimilar things

Answer 3

Metaphor

Question 4

In poetry, the act of creating patterns by repeating not only sounds but also words, lines, meter, or syntax.

Answer 4

Repetition

Question 5

Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases.

Answer 5

Parallelism

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Euphony

Question 7

The use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sound.

Answer 7

Cacophony

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Imagery

Question 9

In a metaphor, the original subject which the metaphor seeks to describe.

Answer 9

Tenor

Question 10

The philosophical viewpoint from which a person examines the world and draws a conclusions.

Answer 10

Worldview

Question 11

A type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point

Answer 11

Hyperbole

Question 13

In a metaphor, the image the tenor of the metaphor is being compared to.

Answer 13

Vehicle

Question 14

Metaphors conveyed indirectly

Answer 14

Implied Metaphors

Question 15

A type of extended metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison

Answer 15

Extended Metaphors

Question 16

A type of extended metaphor that forms a story with two levels of meaning

Answer 16

Allegory

Question 17

An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

Answer 17

Metonymy

Question 18

Using part of something to stand for the whole

Answer 18

Synecdoche

Question 19

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human

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Personification

Question 20

A speaker or writer that directly addresses an absent person or inanimate object

Answer 20

Apostrophe

Question 21

A statement that seems to be self-contradictory yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context.

Answer 21

Paradox

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Conceit

Question 23

A question asked not to receive information, but to achieve an effect

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Rhetorical question

Question 24

What is lasciviousness

Answer 24

Lust

Question 25

A common form of understatement

Answer 25

Litotes

Question 26

The contrast between what is reasonable to expect and what actually happens is known as what?

Answer 26

Irony

Question 27

True/False Verbal irony that takes the form of mock praise is called sarcasm.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True/False Satire is corrective ridicule of an object of scorn usually outside the literature.

Answer 28

True