Lit. Terms Quiz #2

Apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron are examples of (a)  

Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid is called (a)  

Having the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles is (a)   .

The writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness is called (a)  

The strict literary definition of a word, devoid of emotion or attitude is called (a)   .

Wuz up? is (a)   .

In Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing with Feathers," the comparison of hope to a bird is in the title, the first line of the poem, and then continued throughout the poem. This is an example of (a)   .

Although Sally has recently gained 75 pounds, her Grandmother describes her to her bridge club as being pleasantly plump. We call this a (a)   .

"Mother" means home-cooked meals, kisses for scraped knees, playing dolls on rainy days, and warm hugs when he breaks the date. This is the (a)   of the word.

In the poem "Housewifery" by Edward Taylor, the speaker asks to be made into G-d's spinning wheel, equating each part of the wheel with some element of his spiritual life. In the second stanza, he asks to be made a loom with G-d, the weaver, winding or turning the quills, converting the threads into cloth by G-d's ordinances. In the last stanza, he asks to be clad in Divine robes made entirely of newly spun cloth. This intellectual comparison between two very dissimilar things is a particular form of extended metaphor. It is called a (a)