Vocabulary for Fiction and Poetry Quiz 1

A verbal expression of a sensory experience, appealing to any of the senses

• setting

• irony

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

A metaphor extend over several lines of a work

• extended metaphor

• extended figurative language

• extended simile

• extended word choice

A speaker’s attitude as expressed through stylistic choices is

• style

• attitude

• tone

• mood

Meanings or associations readers have with a word beyond the literal definition

• associative words

• connotations

• denotations

• multiple meanings

The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

• minimalistic

• smaller

• understatement

• underestimate

A writer’s choice of words

• diction

• syntax

• tone

• mood

The literal definition of a word; the “dictionary definition”

• literary term

• connotation

• denotation

• part of speech

A figure of speech in which usually helps to explain something unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar

• anaolgy

• paradox

• synecdoche

• paraphrase

Use of sophisticated, academic language without slang

• informal diction

• proper language

• formal diction

• colloquialism

A statement that seems contradictory but reveals a surprising truth

• analogy

• paradox

• metaphor

• simile