BJU En 103, Test 1
Literature in the narrower (and more usual) sense - ✔️✔️Writing that has artistic or
cultural significance
Apostrophe - ✔️✔️An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or
she were present
Sarcasm - ✔️✔️Mock-praise
Hyperbole - ✔️✔️An ironic overstatement
Understatement - ✔️✔️Ironic minimizing of fact
Litotes - ✔️✔️A kind of understatement with the use of no or not
Verbal paradox - ✔️✔️The words themselves seem to be contradictory
Situational paradox - ✔️✔️The situations themselves seem to be contradictory
Simple irony of situation - ✔️✔️An irony that involves suspense and/or surprise
Suspense - ✔️✔️An eager anticipation of the outcome
Surprise - ✔️✔️A violation of the reader's expectation
Anticlimax - ✔️✔️Waiting until the end to state an ironic let-down
Dramatic irony - ✔️✔️When the audience knows something that the character does not
Satire - ✔️✔️Corrective ridicule
Simple verbal irony - ✔️✔️The words say something, but the meaning is different
Allusion - ✔️✔️A reference in a work of literature to an outside source
Metaphor - ✔️✔️A comparison *without* using like or as
Simile - ✔️✔️A comparison *with* using like or as
Metonymy - ✔️✔️Substituting the name of one object for another object closely
associated with it
Literature in the narrower (and more usual) sense - ✔️✔️Writing that has artistic or
cultural significance
Apostrophe - ✔️✔️An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or
she were present
Sarcasm - ✔️✔️Mock-praise
Hyperbole - ✔️✔️An ironic overstatement
Understatement - ✔️✔️Ironic minimizing of fact
Litotes - ✔️✔️A kind of understatement with the use of no or not
Verbal paradox - ✔️✔️The words themselves seem to be contradictory
Situational paradox - ✔️✔️The situations themselves seem to be contradictory
Simple irony of situation - ✔️✔️An irony that involves suspense and/or surprise
Suspense - ✔️✔️An eager anticipation of the outcome
Surprise - ✔️✔️A violation of the reader's expectation
Anticlimax - ✔️✔️Waiting until the end to state an ironic let-down
Dramatic irony - ✔️✔️When the audience knows something that the character does not
Satire - ✔️✔️Corrective ridicule
Simple verbal irony - ✔️✔️The words say something, but the meaning is different
Allusion - ✔️✔️A reference in a work of literature to an outside source
Metaphor - ✔️✔️A comparison *without* using like or as
Simile - ✔️✔️A comparison *with* using like or as
Metonymy - ✔️✔️Substituting the name of one object for another object closely
associated with it
