Home Literature Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 LiteratureQuizzes Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 By Bahaa Shammala - March 11, 2021 408 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Results Perfect, you did it! Don’t Give Up #1. a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is Tone Tone Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Understatement Understatement #2. the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject. Tone Tone Theme Theme Understatement Understatement Syntax Syntax #3. the central idea in a literary work and it is usually an idea about life or about people Syntax Syntax Tone Tone Theme Theme Understatement Understatement #4. a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Syntax Syntax Symbol Symbol Synecdoche Synecdoche Theme Theme #5. a logical argument based on deductive reasoning. Style Style Symbol Symbol Suspense Suspense Syllogism Syllogism #6. the way in which a piece of literature is written; refers not to what is said, but how it is said: Symbol Symbol Syllogism Syllogism Suspense Suspense Style Style #7. a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Synecdoche Synecdoche Symbol Symbol #8. the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story. Suspense Suspense Style Style Symbol Symbol Syllogism Syllogism Finish
