BJU EN 103 FINAL EXAM TERMS | COMPREHENSIVE ENGLISH STUDY
GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Metaphor (narrow sense) - ANS ✔✔the stated or implied equivalence of two things
Simile - ANS ✔✔stated comparison of 2 things using a linking word or phrase such as like, as or, as if
Metonymy - ANS ✔✔substitutes a related thing for the thing itself
Synecdoche - ANS ✔✔substitutes a part for the whole
Reification - ANS ✔✔gives physical existence to an abstraction
Animism - ANS ✔✔the giving of animal traits to something inanimate
Personification - ANS ✔✔the giving of human traits to something nonhuman
Apostrophe - ANS ✔✔a speaking in direct address to something physically nonexistent or absent as if it
were able to respond
Analogy - ANS ✔✔an extended simile; typically it joins tenor and vehicle by a linking word or phrase
Allegory - ANS ✔✔extended metaphor; typically forms a story with 2 levels of meaning, literal & implied
Symbol - ANS ✔✔means something in addition to itself
Verbal irony - ANS ✔✔mode of expression in which the intended meaning differs from the literal
meaning
Simple verbal irony - ANS ✔✔
Sarcasm - ANS ✔✔mock praise
Hyperbole - ANS ✔✔ironic overstatement
Understatement - ANS ✔✔statement affirms something by denying its contrary
Paradox - ANS ✔✔the expression of a truth or belief in the form of an apparent contradiction
Situational irony (when added or accentuated) - ANS ✔✔
Simple irony of situation - ANS ✔✔paradoxical circumstance or outcome
Anticlimax - ANS ✔✔sudden decline from the lofty to the ridiculous
Dramatic irony - ANS ✔✔contrast between the reader's knowledge and the character's ignorance
GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Metaphor (narrow sense) - ANS ✔✔the stated or implied equivalence of two things
Simile - ANS ✔✔stated comparison of 2 things using a linking word or phrase such as like, as or, as if
Metonymy - ANS ✔✔substitutes a related thing for the thing itself
Synecdoche - ANS ✔✔substitutes a part for the whole
Reification - ANS ✔✔gives physical existence to an abstraction
Animism - ANS ✔✔the giving of animal traits to something inanimate
Personification - ANS ✔✔the giving of human traits to something nonhuman
Apostrophe - ANS ✔✔a speaking in direct address to something physically nonexistent or absent as if it
were able to respond
Analogy - ANS ✔✔an extended simile; typically it joins tenor and vehicle by a linking word or phrase
Allegory - ANS ✔✔extended metaphor; typically forms a story with 2 levels of meaning, literal & implied
Symbol - ANS ✔✔means something in addition to itself
Verbal irony - ANS ✔✔mode of expression in which the intended meaning differs from the literal
meaning
Simple verbal irony - ANS ✔✔
Sarcasm - ANS ✔✔mock praise
Hyperbole - ANS ✔✔ironic overstatement
Understatement - ANS ✔✔statement affirms something by denying its contrary
Paradox - ANS ✔✔the expression of a truth or belief in the form of an apparent contradiction
Situational irony (when added or accentuated) - ANS ✔✔
Simple irony of situation - ANS ✔✔paradoxical circumstance or outcome
Anticlimax - ANS ✔✔sudden decline from the lofty to the ridiculous
Dramatic irony - ANS ✔✔contrast between the reader's knowledge and the character's ignorance