the writer's attitude toward the subject and characters -

Common words to describe this term are playful, sarcastic, humorous, serious, formal, informal

the use of similar patterns of grammatical structure and length in speech or writing that allows speakers and writers to maintain a consistency within their work and create a balanced flow of ideas

Parallelism can be used with words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

This is a sub-type of parallelism when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines is used to create rhythm, establish a pattern, give the reader a contextual framework for understanding the ideas, and/or to build dramatic effect

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

what the author writes about -

this uncludes character, plot, theme, and setting)

"singing songs of the seaside" is an example of

repetition of vowel sounds

a brief reference within a text, to something the reader or audience is expected to know

"Black bug bit a big black bear" is an example of

Allusions can be classified as literary, classical, historical, religious or biblical

This place is a pigsty.

"I'm so tired, I could sleep for days!"

"break a leg"

"piece of cake"

"nailed it on the head"

"hit the road"

the choice of words an author uses to achieve effect

the idea or feeling associated with a word -

can be positive or negative / strong or weak

a short entertaining story of some happening, often personal or biographical, used to bring humor or to illustrate a particular characteristic or trait

"he was as quiet as a mouse"

"she swam like a fish"

substituting the name of one object for an object closely related to it

a rhetorical statement in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined to create a new word or meaning

the feeling the author wants to create in the reader by a literary work or passage

the use of words that imitate sounds

a statement that seems to be contradictory but that might be true when considered from a particular perspective

the recurrence of words, phrases, ideas, sounds, etc...

buzz, boom, crash, crack, meow, purr -

These are all examples of

"England decides to keep track on immigration" -

This is an example of which literary term?

"jumbo shrimp"

"bitter sweet"

"pretty ugly"

"deafening silence"

"awfully good"

"Save money by spending it."

This is an example of

the placement of 2 or more opposite ideas, places, paragraphs, situations, etc... near each other in work of literature in order to create a contrasting effect

language that appeals to any of the 5 senses

If an author compares a hose to a python, or a car to a beetle that would be considered an example of what type of imagery?

the contrast between what is and what is expected

when the audience knows something that one or more characters do not know

when the unexpected occurs and the audience is taken by complete surprise

"All's fair in love and war"

This is an example of which literary term?

contrasting characters appearing in a text, where the author's aim is to exaggerate or highlight the differences

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

(from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech)-

This is an example of

A pilot has a fear of heights.

This is an example of what literary term?

Referring to the President of the United States or their administration as “the White House” or “the Oval Office”

the act or an instance of using a person, object, situation, or action which operates on two levels, the literal and the abstract

using one part of an object to represent the entire object

sentence structure

The phrase "hired hands" is used to refer to workers -

This is an example of

Referring to a credit card as plastic is an example of what literary term?

"This is the beginning of the end"

The door slammed shut. The telephone rang. The mouse squeaked.

The car came to a screeching halt.

These four statements are examples of (pick 2 choices)