Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of an initial consonant sound

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

The repetition and f the same word for r phrase at the beginning and f successive clauses or verses

Question 4

Antaclasis

Answer 4

It is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance

Question 5

Antiphrasis

Answer 5

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighbouring words

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

This when a word sounds like what it means

Question 8

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 8

The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals especially in art and literature

Question 9

Blank verse

Answer 9

A literary device defined as an un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter

Question 10

Catharsis

Answer 10

It is the process of releasing strong or pent up emotions through art

Question 11

Byronic hero

Answer 11

A type of fictional character who is a moody, brooding rebel, often one haunted by a dark secret from his past

Question 12

Iambic pentameter

Answer 12

A line of verse with five metrical feet each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable