Key Terms 21-30

Question 0

This term describes traditions for each genre. Help to define each genre.

Answer 0

Generic conventions

Question 1

A device used to produce figurative language. Includes apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, simile, oxymoron, personification, etc.

Answer 1

Figure of speech

Question 2

The major category into which a literary work fits.

Answer 2

Genre

Question 3

This term literally means “sermon,” but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral advice.

Answer 3

Homily

Question 4

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions.

Answer 5

Imagery

Question 6

To draw reasonable conclusion from the information presented.

Answer 6

Inference/ Infer

Question 7

An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.

Answer 7

Invective

Question 8

The contest between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what is actually true and what appears to be.

Answer 8

Irony

Question 9

A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as a phrase or clause.

Answer 9

Loose sentence