Personality Descriptors
Elements of Literature
Speech Habits
Literary Stimulators
100
Medieval bodily humor–energetic, cheerful, positive
What is Sanguine
100
a nice or polite word used to replace a more direct or blunt one.
What is Euphemism
100
short, witty saying
What is Epigram
100
Language or images appealing to the sense of taste.
What is Gustatory imagery
200
Medieval bodily humor–dull
What is Phlegmatic
200
Exaggerated statement
What is Hyperbole
200
two opposite words together forming a compound word or phrase
What is Oxymoron
200
language/words appealing to the sense of sound/hearing.
What is Auditory Imagery
300
a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
What is Melancholy
300
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
What is Metonymy
300
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
What is Litotes
300
Language or images appealing to the sense of smell
What is Olfactory Imagery
400
Excessive pride or self-confidence
What is Hubris
400
a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem.
What is Meter
400
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true
What is Paradox
400
Language or images which appeal to the sense of touch or feeling
What is Tactile Imagery
500
Medieval bodily humor–angry
What is Choleric
500
the use of parallel structure to present oppositional ideas.
What is Antithesis
500
figure of speech in which a part of an object is used to represent the whole.
What is Synecdoche
500
humor directed at making a point about human nature; it attacks human faults and teaches ethics through humor.
What is Satire
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