Cupcakes
What is a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to something nonhuman, such as animals, objects, or abstract qualities
Personification
What is a figure of speech in which a writer consciously exaggerates for the sake of effect?
Hyperbole
What is a literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader?
What is a comparison that says one IS the other, not just like or as?
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech consisting of a comparison between two things using the formula "like" or "as"?
Similie
What is a question with an obvious answer that is asked for the sake of effect?
Rhetorical Question
What are details in a work of literature that stand for, or represent, something else?
Symbolism
What is a literary device that reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds?
Alliteration
What is a person or force in a narrative that stands in the way of the protagonist of the story?
Antagonist
Protagonist
What is a conscious pattern of repeated material in a literary work?
Repetition
What is a literary work that praises either an abstract quality or a general character type?
Encomium
What literary device is used as an adjective to describe a person or place? In practice, is a chief means of characterization, allowing an author to call attention to a specific trait or role of a character.
Epithet
What is a part of a narrative plot that consists of something in a story that sets up a later event?
Foreshadowing
What is a genre of psalm in which the speaker in the poem defines a crisis and invokes God for help?
Lament
What is a successive series of phrases or lines that have the same grammatical format, such as "whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely?
Parallelism
What is an opening of a story that establishes the setting and gives background details?
Prologue
What is the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same?
Assonance
What is a literary device that refers to the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text?
Consonance
What is a long narrative having the following characteristics or ingredients: expansiveness and grandness; the story of a nation or group (nationalistic emphasis), not simply an individual; a unifying hero; motifs of warfare, conquest, kingdom, and rulership; the presence of supernatural characters and events; and an exalted style?
Epic
What is the term for a storytelling technique that begins in the middle of the action, assuming that the audience is already familiar with the preceding events?
What is the repetition of the same words at the beginning and the end of a section of literature, forming bookends?
Inclusio
What is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work?
Meter
What type of poem usually makes use of an idyllic setting, one that is completely, or almost entirely, removed from society?
Pastoral Poem
What is a literary pattern in which the second half of a work takes up the same subjects as the first half, but in reverse order? It is based on a Greek word that means "placing crosswise"; it can be visualized as an X
Chiasmus