Literature Exercise 11

1. Define literary terms

Reading and Analysis of Literature

Multiple Choice

Which option is NOT true about the theme of a work of literature?

• It is the central idea or main point

• It is a simple moral, and summed up in one word

• It can be analyzed using other literary elements

• There can be multiple themes in a text

Multiple Choice

Which option helps to establish the tone (writer's attitude towards the subject)?

• diction (word choice)

• genre

• parallelism

Multiple Choice

________ is a type of literature that is similar in style, structure, and subject matter.

• classification

• group

• genre

Multiple Choice

______ is the voice or persona of the poem

• poet

• speaker

Multiple Choice

_________ is a comparison between two unlike things.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

___________ is when a speaker addresses a dead person, absent person, or non-human entity

• metaphor

• simile

• apostrophe

Multiple Choice

Giving human qualities to something that is not human is ___________.

• symbolism

• personification

Multiple Choice

An exaggerated statement is __________.

• hyperbole

• metonymy

Multiple Choice

____________ is when a person says one thing but really means something else.

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

Multiple Choice

An event that seems deliberately contrary to what one

expects is called _____________.

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

Multiple Choice

________ is a comparison between two unlike things using like, than, or as.

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

_______ is a concrete way of representing a thing or idea that is abstract.

• flashback

• symbolism

Multiple Choice

________ is language that evokes one or more of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

• assonance

• imagery

Multiple Choice

______ is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Multiple Choice

_____ is the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

_______ is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere other than the beginning of words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Words that mimic the sound associated with it is called ___________.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Rhyme at the end of lines is called ________.

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

Multiple Choice

A stanza of two lines is called __________.

• quatrain

• couplet

Multiple Choice

______ is a type of poetic form that does NOT have an established rhythmic pattern or rhyme scheme.

• free verse

• blank verse

• sonnet

Multiple Choice

A pair of two rhyming lines is a _________.

• rhyming tercet

• rhyming couplet

Multiple Choice

________ is a poem with 14 lines, a set rhyme scheme, and a set meter

• free verse

• sonnet

• blank verse

Multiple Choice

A character’s traits are directly stated through his or her speech, behavior, thoughts or appearance is known as _________.

• indirect characterization

• direct characterization

Multiple Choice

A character’s traits are revealed or shown through thoughts, actions, or appearance is known as __________.

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

Multiple Choice

A stanza of four lines is a _________.

• couplet

• quatrain

Multiple Choice

_____ is a statement that goes beyond the literal meaning,

• ambiguity

• archetype

• monologue

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

________ is a character who contrasts with the protagonist; the purpose is to highlight the qualities of the protagonist.

• dynamic

• static

• foil

• round

Multiple Choice

A fully developed character is ____________________.

• flat

• round

• dynamic

• static

Multiple Choice

_______ is when a character experiences a change in the story.

• dynamic

• static

• flat

• round

Multiple Choice

___________is a character that remains the same and/or does not experience an epiphany.

• flat

• dynamic

• static

• round

Multiple Choice

According to Freytag's pyramid, the exposition is the ________.

• the falling action

• the background of the story

• the rising action

• The ending of the story

Multiple Choice

________ creates tension in the plot and can be internal or external.

• flashback

• foreshadow

• irony

• conflict

Multiple Choice

___________ is speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

• monologue

• soliloquy

• chorus

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes a tragedy?

• The main character is isolated,

  meets an untimely demise

  and has a tragic flaw

• The main character is isolated,

  does NOT meets an untimely demise.

Multiple Choice

A story that begins in the middle of things is called __________.

• in medias res

• flashback

• foreshadow

• epiphany

Multiple Choice

A character's perception is contradicted by what an audience knows is _____.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

Multiple Choice

A ______ character is NOT fully developed; the character has one trait.

• round

• flat

Multiple Choice

The moment when the conflict reaches the greatest point of tension is called _________.

• exposition

• climax

Multiple Choice

A _________takes the story back into the past while still in the present.

• flashback

• foreshadow

Multiple Choice

_______ is a hint or clue about what might happen later in the plot of a story.

• foreshadowing

• flashback

Multiple Choice

A sudden moment of realization is ___________.

• epiphany

• caesura

Multiple Choice

________ is the time period (temporal) and place (spatial) in which a story takes place

• plot

• character

• setting

Multiple Choice

In ________, the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.

• third person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

Multiple Choice

In _______, the narrator is not a part of the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

Multiple Choice

_______ is a long speech in which the character directly

addresses the audience.

• monologue

• soliloquy

Multiple Choice

_____ is a literary genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a

cheerful ending.

• comedy

• tragedy

2. Identify literary terms in a passage

Reading and Analysis of Literature

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the literary device in the passage below?
From Edward Field's "Frankenstein"
The monster takes a tentative puff
and smiles hugely, saying, "Smoke-goood,"
and sits back like a banker, grunting and puffing.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Apostrophe

• Paradox

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the literary device in the passage below?
From Jericho Brown's "Dear Dr. Frankenstein"
Eve, turning from heaven to her

As if she was his

To run. No word he said could be tamed.

• Simile

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Verbal Irony

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the literary device in the passage below?
From Edward Field's "Frankenstein"
while tears come into our dear monster's eyes
as he thinks of the stones of the mob, the pleasures of mealtime,
the magic new words he has learned
and above all of the friend he has found.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration
• End Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the literary device in the passage below?
From Edward Field's "Frankenstein"
while tears come into our dear monster's eyes
as he thinks of the stones of the mob, the pleasures of mealtime,
the magic new words he has learned
and above all of the friend he has found.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration
• End Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia