Literary devices

Question 1

Ad hominen

Answer 1

Logical fallacy of arguing that someone is wrong because they are unattractive, immoral, weird

Question 2

Adage

Answer 2

Brief piece of wisdom in short sayings

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

Story within story, deeper philosophical meaning

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Words that begin with same sound placed close together, repetition of sound

Question 5

Allusion

Answer 5

Reference to something, references cultural works

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

Two unrelated objects compared for shared qualities, rhetorical devices used to make rational arguments

Question 7

Anaphora

Answer 7

Certain word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of clauses

Question 8

Anecdote

Answer 8

Short story that is significant to the topic

Question 9

Anthimeria

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Usage of a word in new grammatical form, often usage of a noun as a verb

Question 10

Anthropomorphism

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Giving human traits or attributes to animals, objects or non-human things

Question 11

Antithesis

Answer 11

Opposite of a statement or idea, pair of statements where one is the reverse

Question 12

Antonomasia

Answer 12

Descriptive phrase replaces a person’s name

Question 13

Aphorism

Answer 13

Short statement of truth

Question 14

Aporia

Answer 14

Expression of insincere doubt

Question 15

Aposiopesis

Answer 15

Sentence purposefully left incomplete or cut off

Question 16

Archaism

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Old word or expression that is no longer used with its original meaning

Question 17

Asyndeton

Answer 17

Skipping conjunctions in a series of phrases

Question 18

Chiasmus

Answer 18

Grammatical structure that inverts a previous phrase

Question 19

Diacope

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Repeats a word or phrase with one or more words in between

Question 20

Epistrophe

Answer 20

Certain phrase is repeated at the end of sentences that follow each other

Question 21

Euphemism

Answer 21

Polite phrase substituted for something harsher

Question 22

Excursus

Answer 22

A digression, when text moves away from its main topic

Question 23

Exemplum

Answer 23

Example, story, or anecdote

Question 24

Hyperbaton

Answer 24

Typical order of words is changed

Question 25

Hyperbole

Answer 25

Obvious exaggeration of speech

Question 26

Invective

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Attacking or insulting a person through use of abusive language

Question 27

Metanoia

Answer 27

Deliberately going back to modify a statement just made

Question 28

Metonymy

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Replacing words with related or associated words

Question 29

Oxymoron

Answer 29

Figure of speech that puts opposite elements together

Question 30

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 30

Figure of speech where the natural world is treated as though it has human emotions

Question 31

Peripeteia

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Sudden change in story, turning point where good changes to bad

Question 32

Pleonasm

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Using too many words to express a message

Question 33

Polyptoton

Answer 33

Repetition of a root word

Question 34

Soliloquy

Answer 34

Extended speech but no one is around to hear it

Question 35

Synecdoche

Answer 35

Figure of speech where part represents the whole, or the whole represents a part

Question 36

Verisimilitude

Answer 36

Details of a story similar to real life when it is actually fiction

Question 37

Zeugma

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One word in a sentence that conveys two different meanings

Question 38

Homoioteleuton

Answer 38

Repetition of similar case endings in adjacent words or words in parallel position

Question 39

Paroemion

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Every word in a sentence beginning with the same consonant

Question 40

Anadiplosis

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Repeating last word of one clause at the beginning of the next

Question 41

Antanaclasis

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Repetition of a word whose meaning changes in the second instance

Question 42

Epimone

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Persistent repetition of the same plea in similar wording

Question 43

Prosopographia

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Vivid description of someone's face or character

Question 44

Brachylogia

Answer 44

Omission of conjunctions between a series of words