What is two unlike things compared, and an agreement or comparison?
100
Assonance
What is the resemblance of sounds?
100
Tone and Mood
What is the writer's attitude and state or quality of feeling?
100
Allusion
What is an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication?
100
Imagery
What is the formation of mental images?
200
Oxymoron
What is a self-contradictory effect?
200
Dissonance
What is harsh or inharmonious sounds?
200
Apostrophe
What indicates plural or possessions?
200
Symbol and Foreshadowing
What is something used for representing or regarding something else, and referring to beforehand?
200
Personification and Pun
What is giving animals human traits, and a play on words?
300
Metaphor
What is a term or phrase applied to something which is not literally applicable in order to suggest resemblance?
300
Alitteration
What is two or more stressed syllables with same consonant sound?
300
Parable
What is a short story designed to teach a lesson or truth?
300
Allegory
What is an abstract or spiritual meaning?
300
Hyperbole
What is obvious, intentional exaggeration?
400
Irony
What are words that convey a meaning opposite of the literal meaning?
400
Imitative Harmony / Onomatopoeia
What is imitation of a sound?
400
Monologue
What is a pause for dramatic entertainment or a prolonged talk?
400
Connotation and Denotation
What is the secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its primary meaning, and the direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from ideas or meaning associated with it?
400
Analogy and Aside
What is the similarity between like features of two things, and being away from a position or direction?
500
Paradox
What is a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but expresses a possible truth?
500
Soliloquy
What is utterance by a person who is speaking to themselves; unaware of anyone else present?
500
Epilogue
What is the concluding part to literary work?
500
Epic
What is noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition?