Home Literature Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 LiteratureQuizzes Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 By Bahaa Shammala - March 11, 2021 454 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Results Perfect, you did it! Don’t Give Up #1. a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. Symbol Symbol Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Synecdoche Synecdoche #2. the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story. Symbol Symbol Style Style Syllogism Syllogism Suspense Suspense #3. a logical argument based on deductive reasoning. Syllogism Syllogism Style Style Symbol Symbol Suspense Suspense #4. the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject. Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Tone Tone Understatement Understatement #5. a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Synecdoche Synecdoche Symbol Symbol Syntax Syntax Theme Theme #6. the central idea in a literary work and it is usually an idea about life or about people Syntax Syntax Theme Theme Understatement Understatement Tone Tone #7. 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 #8. the way in which a piece of literature is written; refers not to what is said, but how it is said: Style Style Symbol Symbol Suspense Suspense Syllogism Syllogism Finish