Literary Terms Quiz

Occurs when a person says or writes one thing and means another

• Choral ode

• Verbal irony

• Allusion

• Situational irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A contrast between expectation and reality

• Irony

• Dramatic irony

• Allusion

• Choral ode

Saying "Oh, fantastic!" when the situation is actually very poor

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Allusion

If someone got in a fender bender and said, "Guess today's my lucky day…"

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Allusion

Occurs when the outcome of a situation or event is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected

• Dramatic irony

• Strophe

• Situational irony

• Antistrophe

True or False:

Foreshadowing often occurs at the beginning of a chapter or story and gives a hint of what is to come later.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish”

This is an example of:

• imagery

• allusion

• magic realism

• imagination

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When language, often figurative language, is used to represent objects, actions, and ideas in a way that it appeals to our physical senses or creates a picture in our mind, the author is said to be using what literary device?

• poetry

• imagery

• personification

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The author shows what will come in the future.

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of figurative language to describe objects, actions, or ideas.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Symbol

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3