Lit Terms Review

Lit Terms Review

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Open Ended Questions

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of Oxymoron?

• When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox

• Extreme exaggeration for the purpose of humor

• The model or pattern that represents the essence of a universally recognizable character, symbol or color 

• A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, but not physically a part of. 

Open Ended

Provide and example of Bathos.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of Synecdoche?

• A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, and it is physically connected to the whole.

• The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.

• A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, but not physically a part of. 

• Implied meaning rather than the literal meaning of a word or phrase.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of Didactic?

• The model or pattern that represents the essence of a universally recognizable character, symbol or color

• A story that acts as a metaphor where characters, events and location occur on a literal level, but represent something different on a symbolic level. 

• The author’s choice of specific words to communicate effectively to his/her reader. 

• A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.

Open Ended

Provide an example of Alliteration.

Multiple Choice

A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. Sometimes they are used for political correctness. 

• A brief recounting of a relevant episode. Anecdotes are often inserted into fictional or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor. 

• Placing or describing two things side-by-side for the purpose of in-depth comparison

• Euphemism

• When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat.

Multiple Choice

Sentence construction which places equal grammatical construction near each other or repeats identical grammatical patterns. 

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Imagery

• Allusion

Multiple Choice

"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of _?

• anaphora

• zeugma

• chiasmus

• antithesis

Multiple Choice

An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

• allusion

• hyperbole

• archetype

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of Poetic Device?

• A device used to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines

• The literal explicit meaning of a word or phrase.

• he diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity

• A direct expression of the author’s opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition.

Multiple Choice

What is an example of Synesthesia?

• “Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore”

• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• “I got chewed out by my coach"

• "There was a purplish scent in the air."

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of Dramatic Irony?

• When you say something and mean the opposite/something different

•  When the audience knows something that the character does not. 

•  When the outcome of the plot is not as expected.

• When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.

Poll

What is the definition of Allegory?

• A brief recounting of a relevant episode. Anecdotes are often inserted into fictional or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor.

• A story that acts as a metaphor where characters, events and location occur on a literal level, but represent something different on a symbolic level.

• The model or pattern that represents the essence of a universally recognizable character, symbol or color 

• A character in a story whose primary purpose is to contrast characteristics with another character.