Home Literature Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 LiteratureQuizzes Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 By Bahaa Shammala - March 11, 2021 325 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Results Perfect, you did it! Don’t Give Up #1. a logical argument based on deductive reasoning. Style Style Symbol Symbol Syllogism Syllogism Suspense Suspense #2. the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story. Suspense Suspense Syllogism Syllogism Style Style Symbol Symbol #3. a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Synecdoche Synecdoche Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Symbol Symbol #4. the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject. Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Understatement Understatement Tone Tone #5. the central idea in a literary work and it is usually an idea about life or about people Tone Tone Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Understatement Understatement #6. the way in which a piece of literature is written; refers not to what is said, but how it is said: Syllogism Syllogism Suspense Suspense Style Style Symbol Symbol #7. a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is Understatement Understatement Tone Tone Syntax Syntax Theme Theme #8. a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. Symbol Symbol Syntax Syntax Synecdoche Synecdoche Theme Theme Finish