#3 SOL Lit. Term Review Game

What is the term for the following definition: language that means exactly what it says?

• Literal Language

• Figurative Language

• Colloquial Language

• Slang

What is the term for the following definition: a type of poetry that expresses the poet’s emotions. It often tells some sort of brief story, engaging the reader in the experience?

• Lyric

• Epic

• Haiku

• Ode

What is the term for the following definition: an appeal to the audience’s logic—common sense—in rhetoric?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Kairos

What is the term for the following definition: an appeal to the audience’s ethics—knowing right from wrong—in rhetoric?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Kairos

What is the term for the following definition: an appeal to the audience’s emotions in rhetoric?

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

• Kairos

What is the term for the following definition: a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is the term for the following definition: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem?

• Meter

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Alliteration

What is the term for the following definition: a literary device in the form of a speech or monologue spoken by a single character in a theatrical play or drama. The purpose is for the character to express their inner thoughts and feelings that are not intended to be heard or known by other characters in the play or the audience members?

• Soliloquy

• Dialogue

• Aside

• Monologue

What is the term for the following definition: the use of words that sound like what they mean such as “buzz,” “bang,” or “tic-tock”?

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

What is the term for the following definition: a statement that is apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really contains a possible truth?

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron