Guide to Literary Terms Questions and Answers
What is the difference between an essay and a paragraph?
Types Of Prose
What is the name given to a person who can't read and write?
What is the difference between text and context, especially in literature?
What is the difference between sematic and lexical field, if any?
May I please have 10 kennings for the word "school"?
What is the difference between epic and mock epic?
What is the difference between subject matter and theme?
Figurative language in "Bohemian Rhapsody": can someone help me get the figurative language from the song "Bohemian Rhapsody?"
Features Of Prose
What is a simile and metaphor?
What is the difference between summary notes and prose summary?
Critical Appreciation
"She is the apple of my eye" is an example of (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) personification (d) alliteration?
What is the definition of the word 'agency' in literature?
Theme in Play What is meant by Theme in Play and what is the purpose of using it? What are the techniques used to build a good theme in a play?
What literary term means the following: An inanimate object given animate characteristics, like a talking dog or a couch full of love?
What is the difference between a literary and a nonliterary text?
What are the similarities between the forms of drama, poetry, and the short story?
why is this proverb " fear knocked the door. faith answered.there was no one there." an example of personification?
How does tone help develop theme?
What are some examples of similes and metaphors to describe a person's personality and appearance? It could be either a positive description or a negative one.
What are the differences between rhetorical and literary devices, and what are some examples of both of them?
What are some good metaphors or similes that reveal intelligence, determination, motivation, strength, perfection or persistence?
How does character develop theme?
What is the relationship between setting and theme ?
What is a velic closure and a velaric closure?
What is the literary term for giving an inanimate object animal characteristics—for example "the sidewalk purred"? It's not personification or anthropomorphism, because those are giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
What are the features of mock epic?
What are the general forms of prose and its types? What are the the styles of prose (e.g., common style and cheap style)? What is the distinction between fictional and non-fictional prose?
What is the difference between narrative prose and dialogue in a short story?
What is the effect of staccatoo sentences in writing? effect of asyndeton, anaphora?
What is the function of intonation?
What are the similarities and differences between poetry and prose?
What are the characteristics of an ode?
What is meant by rhetoric and prosody ?
Text And Discourse
Literature Study
What is the exact definition of the term literary trends? Thank you in advance.
What Prevailing Mood Is Conveyed In Arachne
Comedy What is the difference between Comedy of humour and Comedy of manner? please explain with some examples from Renaissance playwrights
What is the difference between the novel and drama?
What is an anti-romantic comedy?
What is the definition and nature of drama?
What is the difference between poetic devices and figures of speech? Is alliteration a poetic device or figure of speech?
What is the function of chorus in drama?
Collection Of Poems
What effects does the use of first person point of view cause on a story?
What does poetry appreciation mean? How can people appreciate poetry?
What are the definitions of the types of words simple, compound and complex?
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