English 2 EOC literary terms pre-test

When two unlike things are compared not using the words "like" or "as"

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Metaphor

A reference to something outside of a work of literature

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Personification

Extreme exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Mood

What term indicates that a character is contrasted with another character?

• Foreshadow
• Foil
• Hyperbole
• Imagery

What term indicates a character that is multi-dimensional?

• Stereotype

• Simpleton

• Static Character

• Complex Character

When certain things represent ideas or qualities

• Symbol
• Indicate
• Setting
• Purpose

Main character

• Antagonist
• Protagonist
• Symbol
• Exemplify

The central message or insight into life that revealed through a literary work. A generalization about people or life.

• conflict
• rising action
• theme
• plot

When the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.

• Theme
• Irony
• Characterization
• Point of view

the repetition of a sound at the end of multiple words that are at the end of multiple lines of poetry

• assonance
• alliteration
• consonance
• rhyme