Vocab

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

a story that uses characters that reflect people and storylines from the real world

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Use of the same sounds at the beginning of words

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

a referral within a work of literature to something else

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

a device through which characters address other characters as if they were present through ideas and personifications

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

when words close to each other repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds

Question 6

Auditory Imagery

Answer 6

Imagery relating to sound

Question 7

Aporia

Answer 7

an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty for rhetorical effect

Question 8

Antithesis

Answer 8

direct contrast, opposition

Question 9

Asyndeton

Answer 9

abscence of conjunction between two parts of a sentence

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

repetition at the beginning of the phrase or sentence

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

repetition of vowell sounds

Question 12

Blank Verse

Answer 12

Iambic pentameter, doesn’t rhyme

Question 13

Ab Ovo

Answer 13

Chronological order

Question 14

Connotation

Answer 14

implied meaning aside from the explicit thing described

Question 15

Consonance

Answer 15

repetitive consonant sounds

Question 16

Dramatic Irony

Answer 16

irony created when readers know what is going to happen before characters

Question 17

Catachresis

Answer 17

using the wrong word in the wrong context

Question 18

Epistrophe

Answer 18

repetition at the end of phrases

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

exaggerating ideas for emphasis

Question 20

Metonymy

Answer 20

figure of speech that replaces a name with a name of something else

Question 21

Olfactory Imagery

Answer 21

imagery relating to smell

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

two opposite terms put together to cause a conflicting effect

Question 23

Paradox

Answer 23

oxymoron, but longer

Question 24

Synedoche

Answer 24

part that represents the whole

Question 25

Tactile Imagery

Answer 25

imagery relating to touch

Question 26

Verbal Irony

Answer 26

when a character says something contradictory to reality