Quiz 3: Literary Terms & Rhetorical Devices

Reflective poems that lament the loss of someone or something.

• Elegy
• Ambiguity
• Aside
• Colloquialism
• Fallacy

Lack of clarity or uncertainty in meaning.

• Ambiguity
• Aside
• Colloquialism
• Elegy
• Fallacy

A character trait that brings about the downfall of the hero or heroine.

• Tragic Flaw
• Inference

• Metonymy

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Rhetorical Question

The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.

• Colloquialism
• Ambiguity
• Aside
• Elegy
• Fallacy

The attribution of human traits and emotions to inanimate nature.

• Inference

• Metonymy

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Rhetorical Question

• Tragic Flaw

A convention in drama whereby a character onstage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling.

• Aside
• Ambiguity
• Colloquialism
• Elegy
• Fallacy

Deductions or conclusions readers make based on information available.

• Inference
• Metonymy

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Rhetorical Question

• Tragic Flaw

An erroneous argument that is dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention.

• Fallacy
• Ambiguity
• Aside
• Colloquialism
• Elegy

A question asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected.

• Inference

• Metonymy

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Rhetorical Question

• Tragic Flaw

A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.

• Inference

• Metonymy

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Rhetorical Question

• Tragic Flaw