Literary Techniques

The use of any element of language more than once is called...

• End Rhyme

• Allusion

• Soliloquy

• Repetition

When a character gives a speech alone on stage it is called...

• Allusion

• Soliloquy

• Characterization

• Verbal Irony

In literature, hints about what's to come later in the story are called...

• Aside

• Imagery

• Foreshadowing

• End Rhyme

When someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another

• Verbal Irony

• End Rhyme

• Aside

• Oxymoron

A short speech directed to the audience, or another character, that is not heard by the other characters on stage is called...

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Aside

• Characterization

A reference to a person, place, event, or literary work is called...

• Verbal Irony

• Characterization

• Monologue

• Allusion

The repetition of sounds at the ends of words is called...

• End rhyme

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

Language that appeals our senses is called...

• Personification

• Allusion

• Characterization

• Imagery

The way a writer writes and develops characters' personalities is called...

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Personification

• Characterization

Unrhymed poetry written in iambic petameter is called...

• Blank verse

• End rhyme

• Haiku

• Repetition