Literary Devices Quiz #5

A passage printed on the title page or first page of a literary work or at the beginning of a section of such a work.

• epigraph
• analogy
• asyndeton
• connotation
• foil

The general feeling created for the reader or audience by the work at a given point: atmosphere.

• mood
• hyperbaton

• periphrasis

• simile

• trope

A rhetorical figure involving the deliberate omission of conjunctions to create a concise, terse, and often memorable statement.

• asyndeton
• analogy
• connotation
• epigraph
• foil

Figure of thought: One of the two major divisions of figures of speech (the other being rhetorical figures).

• trope
• hyperbaton

• mood

• pariphrasis

• simile

The association(s) evoked by a word beyond its literal meaning.

• connotation
• analogy
• asyndeton
• epigraph
• foil

A trope that compares two distinct things by using words such as like or as to link the vehicle (image) and the tenor (subject).

• simile
• hyperbaton

• mood

• periphrasis

• trope

A rhetorical figure involving a reversal of word order to make a point.

• hyperbaton
• mood

• periphrasis

• simile

• trope

An explanation, often employing metaphor and/or simile, in which an idea or a thing is compared to something that is quite different from it, but that would be familiar to the reader.

• analogy
• asyndeton
• connotation
• epigraph
• foil

In rhetoric, a roundabout description of something--verbosity.

• periphrasis
• hyperbaton

• mood

• simile

• trope

A character whose contrast with the main character (protagonist) serves to accentuate the latter’s distinctive qualities or characteristics.

• foil
• analogy
• asyndeton
• connotation
• epigraph