Super Quiz: Literary matters

1. The use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words in a sentence.

2. A literary work such as "Don Quixote" that imitates and exaggerates to produce a comic effect.

3. A statement that makes something seem less important, serious, big, etc., than it really is.

4. The use of humor, irony or exaggeration to criticize.

5. A phrase such as "drowning in money" to suggest similar qualities.

6. An expression such as "deafening silence" that contains words with opposite meanings.

7. A statement that is a contradiction, such as, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

8. Emotional appeal to evoke sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.

9. Using words such as "buzz" and "thud" that imitate the sound they denote.

Answers:

1. Alliteration

2. Parody

3. Understatement

4. Satire

5. Metaphor

6. Oxymoron

7. Paradox

8. Pathos

9. Onomatopoeia