What is word choice?
Diction
What is it when something is out of time or place?
Anachronism
What is an educated guess, interpretation based on knowledge and experience?
Inference
What is a stereotypical character?
Archetype
What is the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot?
Foreshadowing
What is the literal or primary meaning of the word, the definition?
Denotation
What is the author’s attitude about the story or subject or characters?
Tone
What is an extreme exaggeration used for effect?
Hyperbole
What is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Symbolism
What is the suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word?
Connotation
What is giving human characteristics to something nonhuman?
Personification
What is a figure of speech where two things contradict each other?
Oxymoron
What is referencing something or someone well-known?
Allusion
What is comparing two unlike things using like or as?
Simile
What is a word that exists solely because it is a sound that is made?
Onomatopoeia
What is it to persuade an audience by appealing to logic and facts?
Logos
What is it to persuade an audience by appealing to credibility?
Ethos
What is a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities?
Paradox
What is it to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions?
Pathos
What is fancy sarcasm, when what you expect to happen is in fact the opposite?
Irony
What is the use of humor/irony to expose and criticize something or someone?
Satire
What is a character that is there to contrast and emphasize another character?
Foil
What is placing two or more things next to each other for comparison?
Juxtaposition
What is it when a story has a hidden meaning within it?
Allegory
What is a mistaken belief based on an incorrect argument?
Fallacy