Dramatic Devices

Question 1

Aside

Answer 1

Short speech to audience or another character

Question 2

Soliloquy

Answer 2

To advance plot only heard by audience to inform about state of mind

Question 3

Pathos

Answer 3

Envoies pity or sadness

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

A reference to another literary work
She was the eve of tomorrow

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

Use of words to create an atmosphere and image in a reader.
Blood, darkness

Question 6

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 6

A figure of speech to describe an inanimate thing

Question 7

Prose

Answer 7

Written without a rhythm

Question 8

Verse

Answer 8

Writing arranged with rythm

Question 9

Sonnet

Answer 9

Short poem with 14 lines

Question 10

Rythming couplet

Answer 10

A pair of successive lines that rhyme

Question 11

Free verse

Answer 11

A poem that does not have rhythm rhyme or stanza patterns

Question 12

Rhythm

Answer 12

The flow of words and lines of a poem

Question 13

Iambic pentameter

Answer 13

A pattern with 10 syllables per line

Question 14

Stanza

Answer 14

The pattern of lines that make a unit in a porm

Question 15

Diction

Answer 15

Words the poet chooses to express menaing

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

Big brown bear

Question 17

Hyperbole

Answer 17

I’m so hungry I could eat a hours

Question 18

Malaprpiosm

Answer 18

I might just fade into Bolivian

Question 19

Metaphor

Answer 19

Time is a theif

Question 20

Simile

Answer 20

As blind as a bat

Question 21

Onomatopoeia

Answer 21

Sizzle whoosh splash

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

Old news, awfully good

Question 23

Paradox

Answer 23

Less is more, be cruel to be kind

Question 24

Personification

Answer 24

The wind whispered

Question 25

Pun

Answer 25

A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it’s too tired

Question 26

Understatement

Answer 26

Getting hit by a car might leave a mark.