Week #5 Literary/rhetorical terms quiz

Trope

• The generic name for a figure of speech such as personification, metonymy, simili, hyperbole
• The generic name for a figure of speech such as an icon, a simile, and a meteor.
• The generic name for a figure of speech such as poetry, drama, and novels.
• The generic name for a figure of speech such as vowels, nouns, and verbs.

periphrasis

• Using indirect and nonsensical words in literature.
• Using direct and few words in speech and writing.
• a roundabout description of something-verbousity
• Using indirect words and or using pathetic words in literature.

simile

• a large grin on your face often worn during happiness.
• a trope comparing two similar items using words so or but.
• a trope comparing two distinct things using words like or as.
• a trope composing three items using ditinct words such as and, nor, yet.

mood in literature

• a groovy vibe.
• the point in a text where the protagonist feels emotions.
• the general feeling created for the reader by the work at a given point.
• Feeling or atmospher that a teacher creates for a student.

analogy

• A similarity or comparison between apples and oranges.
• A similarity or comparison between nouns and verbs or the relationship between them.
• A similarity or comparison between thirteen things or relationship between them.
• A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

hyperbaton

• reversal of word order to make a point
• reversal of adjective order to make a point
• reversal of fortune
• repetition of adverbial phrases

Foil

• A character who acts as a contrast to another character.
• A character who acts as a consonant to another character.
• A character who acts as a constant reminder to another character.
• A characterization who acts as a clown to another character.

epigraph

• A quotation or a passage at the end of a literary work suggestive of a theme.
• a quotation or passage at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.
• An old record player.
• A quotation or a passage in the middle of a novel with graphics and charts.

Connotation

• An idea or a feeling that a word invokes in subtraction to its literal meaning.
• An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
• An idea or a feeling that a word invokes in addition to its subliminal meaning.
• An idea or a feeling that a word invokes to add to its negative feeling.

Veni, vidi,vici is an example of

• asyndeton
• connotation
• hyperbaton
• epigraph