Literary Devices Quiz

Literary Devices

• Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
• Allusion: Brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
• Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
• Anaphora: Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
• Aside: A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters on stage.
• Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
• Blank Verse: Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.
• Couplet: Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
• Dynamic Character: A character who undergoes significant internal change over the course of a story.
• Dramatic Irony: A situation in which the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not, creating tension or humor.
• Enjambment: Continuation of a sentence or clause from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.
• Epistrophe: Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
• Foil: A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
• Iambic Pentameter: A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of five iambs per line, where an iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
• Parallelism: Use of similar grammatical structures, phrases, or rhythms to express related ideas or emphasize a point.
• Prose: Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
• Rhymed Verse: Poetry with a regular rhyme scheme and meter.
• Soliloquy: A dramatic device in which a character speaks to themselves, expressing their thoughts and feelings aloud, regardless of who may be listening.
• Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, with a prescribed rhyme scheme.
• Verbal Irony: A figure of speech in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the literal meaning, often creating humor or sarcasm.

Vocabulary

• Admonish: Scold; remind; give advice or encouragement.
• Asylum: Refuge; a place of protection or safety; institution providing care for the needy.
• Bogus: Fake; not genuine; not real; counterfeit.
• Compensate: Give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense; reduce or counteract.
• Dissent: Differ in opinion; strong difference of opinion; disagree.
• Exorbitant: Highly excessive; too much or too high to be reasonable.
• Flair: Natural ability/talent/skill; stylishness; done in an exciting or interesting way.
• Incorrigible: Not capable of being changed/reformed; hopeless; impossible to correct.
• Incredulous: Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true; skeptical; not wanting to believe something.
• Invincible: Incapable or impossible to defeat or overcome.
• Lucid: Ability to think clearly and rationally; clearly expressed and easy to understand.
• Metropolis: Chief or capital city; largest and busiest city.
• Ponder: To think or consider very carefully; reflect on.
• Preposterous: Unreasonable; ridiculous; foolish; absurd; contrary to common sense.
• Reconcile: Settle/resolve; restore to friendship or harmony; compare financial accounts/amounts.
• Rectify: Set right; correct; make right.
• Skeptical: Not easily convinced; doubting.
• Statute: Formally approved written enactment by the legislature.
• Vagrant: A poor person that moves/wanders around from place to place.
• Vindicate: To show or uphold something as true, just, right, or reasonable; free from guilt/blame.

William Shakespeare

• Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564.
• Married to Anne Hathaway and had three children.
• Famous play: "Romeo & Juliet".