This is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory words such as jumbo shrimp.
What is oxymoron?
100
This is a brief story told by a character in a piece of literature.
What is anecdote?
100
This is a more pleasant word used in place of an unpleasant word.
What is euphemism?
100
This is sensory details and figurative language used to evoke a certain feeling in a literary work.
What is imagery?
100
This is a literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human weakness.
What is satire?
200
This is the placement of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
What is antithesis?
200
This is a person or thing that makes another seem better by comparison.
What is foil?
200
This is the ghostly counterpart of a living person or alter ego.
What is doppelganger?
200
This is the main idea of a story.
What is theme?
200
This is the way words are put together to form sentences.
What is syntax?
300
This is the repetition of an initial constant sound.
What is alliteration?
300
This is a statement that seems contradictory, but is true.
What is paradox?
300
This is a situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event.
What is motif?
300
This is a statement used to make a point or illustrate a belief.
What is aphorism?
300
This is the describing of a nonhuman object as if it were human.
What is personification?
400
This is where a part of something is used to signify the whole. As in, "all hands on deck."
What is synecdoche?
400
This is the author's choice of words used to convey a tone or effect.
What is diction?
400
This is the true dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
This is the implied or non-dictionary definition of a word.
What is connotation?
400
This is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is negated by its opposite.
What is litote?
500
This is a figure of speech where the order is reversed from the first part of a sentence to the last. Such as, "Has the church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the church."
What is chiasmus?
500
This is the placing of two words side by side to create a certain effect.
What is juxtaposition?
500
This is the feeling created by the tone as well as the author's point of view.
What is mood?
500
This is the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words.
What is assonance?
500
This is a story which's theme is the psychological growth of the main character.