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What do you call a Three humped camel?
Pregnant
A short story used to prove a point with moral basis.
What is a Parable?
A literary device that evokes a sensory experience for the reader by using highly descriptive language.
What is Imagery?
A monologue exposing inner emotions.
What is a Soliloquy?
Excessive pride
What is Hubris?
the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.
What is Antithesis?
A poem written in a song-like tone.
What is a Ballad?
A literary device that brings familiarity to the story, typically a universal symbol.
What is an Archetype?
Words used twice in succession but reversed.
What is a Chiasmus?
A tragic flaw or error in Judgement
What is Hamartia?
the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people
What is Dialect?
The understanding of a situation contrasts another understanding of the same situation.
What is Situational Irony?
Literary device that's a narrative/ visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with mortal or political significance.
What is an Allegory?
Repetition of similar vowel sounds within words and phrases, commonly used for a lyrical effect in poetry and other literary forms.
What is Assonance?
The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another.
What is Synesthesia?
the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect.
What is diction?
A statement that, in context, implies its opposite.
What is Verbal Irony?
Literary device used to emphasis a phrase or certain words to reinforce meaning and feelings for the reader.
What is an Anaphora?
Device that involves attributing human characteristics, emotions, or behaviors to nonhuman entities.
What is Anthropomorphism?
A substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it.
What is Metonymy?
a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation.
What is an Elegy?
The audience knows key info that the character(s) don't.
What is Dramatic Irony?
A reoccurring situation or action. (sounds, smell, temp, etc)
What is a Motif?
Time machine of literary devices. Can be an accident or on purpose.
What is Anachronism?
Using deceitfully decorative words to convey hidden, usually bad, meanings.
What is a Euphemism?