Stylistic Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 2

Consonance

Answer 2

repetition of consonant sounds in words close together

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

the repetition of the same vowel ounds in words

Question 4

Onomatopoeia

Answer 4

the sounds of the word which mimics a sound to which is refers to

Question 5

Dissonance

Answer 5

refers to a disruption in the harmonic sounds or rhythm (Is used to create deliberately awkward or jarring sounds within a text).

Question 6

Allusion

Answer 6

A reference to a famous or historic person, place, or event within a literary text

Question 7

Anaphora

Answer 7

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines or successive clauses

Question 8

Epistrophe

Answer 8

repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of lines or successive clauses

Question 9

Repetition

Answer 9

the repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis or for effect

Question 10

Anticlimax

Answer 10

the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses so that there is a deliberate lapse from an ascending order of importance

Question 11

Antithesis

Answer 11

involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure

Question 12

Asyndeton

Answer 12

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series ( too few coordinating conjunctions).

Question 13

Polysyndeton

Answer 13

Deliberate use of too many conjunctions.

Question 14

Chiasmus

Answer 14

A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structure.

Question 15

Climax

Answer 15

the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses in an ascending order of importance.

Question 16

Dysphemism

Answer 16

A statement expressed in its harshest or unpleasant manner

Question 17

Euphemism

Answer 17

A figure or speech in which the harsh or unpleasant fact is so state that its harshness or unpleasantness is concealed

Question 18

Elision

Answer 18

The omission of a letter or syllable as a means of contraction; most omissions are marked with an apostrophe

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

A figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used

Question 20

Understatement

Answer 20

When the severity or harshness of something is diminished

Question 21

Euphony

Answer 21

A pleasing and harmonious combination of sounds –melodious (associated with Alliteration, consonance, or assonance)

Question 22

Cacophony

Answer 22

a harsh discordant unpleasant combination of sounds

Question 23

Rhetorical Question

Answer 23

a question that is used more as a statement for greater emphasis; no formal answer is expected

Question 24

Hypophora

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A figure of speech in which the speaker raises a question then answers it

Question 25

Imagery

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A description that appeals to the senses ( Is achieved through sensory adverbs and adjectives)

Question 26

Visual Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of sight

Question 27

Auditory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of hearing

Question 28

Gustatory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of taste

Question 29

Olfactory Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of smell

Question 30

Tactile Imagery

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A description that appeals to the sense of touch

Question 31

Kinesthetic Imagery

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A description that appeals to motion or movement

Question 32

Organic Imagery

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A description that appeals to an internal sensation (a tingling in an arm, a lump in my throat, etc.)

Question 33

Synesthesia

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The description of a sense impression but in terms of another seemingly inappropriate sense

Question 34

Idiom

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A words or group of words whose meaing is created from usage and not the definition of the words

Question 35

Inversion

Answer 35

changing of normal word order or syntax

Question 36

Verbal Irony

Answer 36

stating the opposite of what one really means

Question 37

Situational Irony

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The contrast between what we think should happen and what actually does happen

Question 38

Dramatic Irony

Answer 38

A device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but that the audience or readers have anticipated because their knowledge of events or individuals is more complete than the character's ( when the auidence/reader knows more than what the character).

Question 39

Socratic Irony

Answer 39

When someone feigns ignorance in order to reveal the ignorance of someone else (reveals foolishness through pretend teachings).

Question 40

Juxaposition

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together for comparison

Question 41

Litotes

Answer 41

Understatement in which an idea is conveyed by the use of its opposite with a negative

Question 42

Metaphor

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A comparison not using like or as

Question 43

Simile

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A comparison using like or as or than

Question 44

Metonymy

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A kind of metaphor. An object is given the name of something else with which it is associated

Question 45

Synecdoche

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Referring to something by referencing a part of it or by referencing something of which it is a part (part=whole OR whole=part)

Question 46

Oxymoron

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Joining two contradictory words or phrases often but not always side by side

Question 47

Paradox

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A statement which at first seems to be self-contradictory, but which on closer inspection turns out to have a valid meaning

Question 48

Pathetic Fallacy

Answer 48

Projecting the emotions of a character onto its environment. It is a form of personification that must connect to environment and then to character

Question 49

Personification

Answer 49

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

Question 50

Apostrophe

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to address a person who is not present or to address an object or concept as if it were a person

Question 51

Prosopopoeia

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give speech or a voice to nonhuman things.

Question 52

Pun

Answer 52

A play on words mostly for witty or humourous effect

Question 53

Symbol

Answer 53

Words or images that signify more than they literally represent. Symbols are linked to associated meanings -- not just function.

Question 54

Tautology

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The redundant or pointless use of words, which effectually delivers the same meaning. Retelling the same thing by using different words or phrases

Question 55

Tmesis

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Is an insertion of a word between the parts of a word

Question 56

Zeugma

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Term for the use of a single word to denote two or more words in a sentence and is fraught with literal and metaphorical undertones (2 different definitions but one word)

Question 57

Metafication

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Literature that references itself. It can be created by addressing the reader directly (uses you or reader), or it can be created by mentioning a related action or term that connects to read/writing (sentence, symbol, forshadow, writing, etc.)

Question 58

Metaplasmus

Answer 58

Intentional misspelling to a dialect or meaning (slang).

Question 59

Logos

Answer 59

presuasive appeals to logic

Question 60

Pathos

Answer 60

presuasive appeals to emotion

Question 61

Ethos

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Presuasive appeals to authority (relies on creditability)

Question 62

Kairos

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Presuasive appeals presented at the most opportune time and place (right place and right timing (favours)).

Question 63

Charatonym

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When the name of a character reveals elements of his or her characterization

Question 64

Foreshadow

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Subtle hints given as to future events

Question 65

How is a simile set up

Answer 65

Tenor (subject) like a vechicle (description)

Question 66

How is a metaphor set up

Answer 66

Tenor (Subject) is vechicle (description)

Question 67

What are the coordinating conjunctions

Answer 67

FANBOYS (For-And-Not-But-Or-Yet-So)