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Lit Terms Test #5
Words for the literary terms test #5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive word or phrase for another that would be harsh, offensive, or embarrassing |
| euphony | the quality of a pleasant or harmonious sound of a word or group of words as an intended effect |
| farce | kind of comedy that depends on exaggerated or improbable situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendo to amuse the audience |
| free verse | poetry that does not have rhythm or rhyme |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration for literary effect that is not meant to be interpreted literally |
| interior monologue | literary technique used in poetry and prose that reveals a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that is withing a line rather than at the end of the line |
| inversion | a switch in the normal word order, often used for emphasis or rhyme scheme |
| litotes | affirmation of an idea by using a negative understatment. opposite of hyperbole |
| lyric poem | a fairly short, emotionally expressive poem that expresses the feelings and observations of a single speaker |
| metamorphosis | a radical change in a character, either physical or emotional |
| metaphor | a figure of speech which compares two dissimilar things, asserting that one this is the other thing, not just that one is like the other. |
| meter | rhymical pattern of a poem |
| onomatopeoia | words that imitate sounds |
| oxymoron | figure of speech that combines two contradictory words, placed side by side |
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