Home Literature Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 LiteratureQuizzes Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 By Bahaa Shammala - March 11, 2021 240 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Results Perfect, you did it! Don’t Give Up #1. the central idea in a literary work and it is usually an idea about life or about people Tone Tone Syntax Syntax Understatement Understatement Theme Theme #2. a logical argument based on deductive reasoning. Symbol Symbol Syllogism Syllogism Style Style Suspense Suspense #3. a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is Tone Tone Understatement Understatement Syntax Syntax Theme Theme #4. a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Synecdoche Synecdoche Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Symbol Symbol #5. a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. Symbol Symbol Theme Theme Synecdoche Synecdoche Syntax Syntax #6. the way in which a piece of literature is written; refers not to what is said, but how it is said: Syllogism Syllogism Style Style Suspense Suspense Symbol Symbol #7. the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story. Style Style Symbol Symbol Suspense Suspense Syllogism Syllogism #8. the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject. Tone Tone Understatement Understatement Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Finish
