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Ela test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Irony | provides a contrast |
| verbalirony | A contrast between what is stated and what is meant: |
| dramaticirony | A contrast between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true |
| situationalirony | A contrast between what the reader expects to happen and what really happens |
| litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite |
| metaphor | Speaking of one things as if it were another |
| mood | The atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a work of literature |
| motif | Recurring element that has symbolic significance in the story |
| motivation | The reason that explains a character’s thoughts, feelings, actions or speech |
| narration | Writing that tells a story |
| novel | A long work of fiction |
| onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate sounds |