Vocab

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of beginning sounds

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to a famous person or event

Question 3

Analogy

Answer 3

Showing similarities between 2 unlike things

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

When the speaker talks to something or someone not present

Question 5

Archetype

Answer 5

Original piece that was imitated

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

Contract or opposition between 2 things

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Question 8

Cacophony

Answer 8

Use of harsh sounding words or letters

Question 9

Characterization

Answer 9

Direct: author tells something directly about a character
Indirect: learn about character through the words and actions of characters in the story

Question 10

Conflict

Answer 10

1. A serious disagreement/argument
2. Incompatible

Question 11

Consonance

Answer 11

1. Opposite of conflict (agreement)
2. Recurrence of similar sounds

Question 12

Deus ex machine

Answer 12

Unexpected outcome that appears without development

Question 13

Diction

Answer 13

Use of specific words to create an effect

Question 14

Dramatic irony

Answer 14

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Question 15

Enjambment

Answer 15

A line in verse that continues after the line break

Question 16

Juxtaposition

Answer 16

Putting 2 opposite things together to highlight a difference

Question 17

Metonymy

Answer 17

When something is referred to as something related to it

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Putting contradictory words together

Question 19

Paradox

Answer 19

A phrase or idea that is, or seems, contradictory

Question 20

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 20

Basically personification

Question 21

Pun

Answer 21

Humour from words that gave more than one meaning

Question 22

Rhythm

Answer 22

Measured flow of words and phrases in verse/prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 23

Situation irony

Answer 23

When the outcome is different then what was expected

Question 24

Synecdoche

Answer 24

Using a part of something to represent the whole

Question 25

Tone

Answer 25

Feeling or atmosphere of a story that often creates tension

Question 26

Verbal irony

Answer 26

When something is said but the opposite is meant

Question 27

Verisimilitude

Answer 27

Giving the appearance of being real or true

Question 28

Voice

Answer 28

Writing essays: tone and language used
In fiction: fiction and language of specific characters