Home Literature Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 LiteratureQuizzes Study & Quiz: Literature definitions 7 By Bahaa Shammala - March 11, 2021 438 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 Theme Theme Understatement Understatement Tone Tone Syntax Syntax #2. a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is Theme Theme Syntax Syntax Tone Tone Understatement Understatement #3. a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Symbol Symbol Syntax Syntax Theme Theme Synecdoche Synecdoche #4. the way in which a piece of literature is written; refers not to what is said, but how it is said: Suspense Suspense Symbol Symbol Style Style Syllogism Syllogism #5. a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. Synecdoche Synecdoche Theme Theme Symbol Symbol Syntax Syntax #6. the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject. Understatement Understatement Theme Theme Tone Tone Syntax Syntax #7. a logical argument based on deductive reasoning. Suspense Suspense Style Style Symbol Symbol Syllogism Syllogism #8. the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story. Style Style Suspense Suspense Syllogism Syllogism Symbol Symbol Finish
