Literary Devices

Question 1

Ethos

Answer 1

The moral element in dramatic literature

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Question 3

Pathos

Answer 3

an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) — compare metaphor

Question 5

Logos

Answer 5

the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government, and redemption of the world and often identified with the second person of the Trinity

Question 6

Pathos

Answer 6

an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

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: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language — compare simile

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

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: attribution of personal qualities; especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) —called also head rhyme, initial rhyme

Question 10

Onomatopoeia

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: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)

Question 11

Hyperbole

Answer 11

Definition:
A hyperbole is a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.

Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

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: an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also : the use of such references

Question 13

Anaphora

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: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect — compare epistrophe

Question 14

Apposition

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a : a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Burns”)

Question 15

Apostrophe

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: the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

Question 16

Archetype

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: the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype; also : a perfect example

Question 17

Indirect characterization

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the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character’s speech, actions, appearance, etc.

Question 18

Direct characterization

Answer 18

the narrator or a character in the story tells us what we need to know about a character