Literary Appreciation Quiz

A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is

• satire

• aside

• comic relief

• dramatic irony

A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an

• allegory

• fable

• novella

• novelette

Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of

• comedy

• poetry

• prose

• tragedy

The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is

• denouement

• hamartia

• hubris

• peripeteia

With the pen, he wrote kings into reality

with his words, kingdoms arose,

those same words, slaves inhaled

their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories

His pen was like the breath of life.

The underlined words illustrate

• hyperbole

• irony

• metonymy

• paradox

With the pen, he wrote kings into reality

with his words, kingdoms arose,

Those same words, slaves inhaled

Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories

His pen was like the breath of life.

Hand and feet in line 4 illustrate

• contrasty

• litotes

• personification

• synecdoche

With the pen, he wrote kings into reality

with his words, kingdoms arose,

Those same words, slaves inhaled

Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories

His pen was like the breath of life.

The underlined words exemplifies

• bathos

• pathos

• satire

• simile

Comic relief occurs in

• comedies

• pastorals

• romance

• tragedies

One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of

• apostrophe

• paradox

• pun

• sarcasm

Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates

• caesura

• eponym

• oxymoron

• zeugma