Literary Terms Unit 5 Quiz

What is the literary term that refers to a comparison of two or more similar objects?

• Theme

• Analogy

• Allegory

• Allusion

What is the term for a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature?

• Tone

• Allusion

• Mood

• Satire

What is the term for the writer's attitude or feeling about his or her subject?

• Tone

• Theme

• Mood

• Allegory

What is the term for the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers?

• Satire

• Mood

• Allegory

• Theme

What is the term for a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities?

• Analogy

• Allegory

• Theme

• Satire

What is the term for the central idea or message of a work?

• Allusion

• Theme

• Tone

• Analogy

A literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society. A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. It targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions.

• Satire

• Tone

• Allegory

• Analogy

George Orwell's Animal Farm is a classic example of this literary term. The story follows a farm full of tired, overworked animals as they rebel against their farmer to create a utopian community. Yet in the end, the idealism they sought to promote failed just as their tyrannical leader did.

• Allusion

• Satire

• Allegory

Answer explanation

While Animal Farm is commenting on the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, rather than making an brief reference (allusion), the entire story is supposed to represent and depict historical events in a more understandable way by simplifying the story and using animals to represent various concepts or ideas. A larger story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities is called an allegory.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) This is an example of:

• satire

• allegory

• allusion

• analogy

Answer explanation

An analogy can be defined as a comparison of two or more similar objects suggests that if they are alike in certain respects, they will probably be alike in other ways as well.

Many television programs appeal to audiences with their combination of scrutiny, humor, and criticism of politics, popular culture, social conventions, human nature, media, and even television itself. The shows South Park; The Office; Saturday Night Live, and The Simpsons are all examples of this literary device or genre.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Satire

• Analogy

Answer explanation

One of the earliest and most famous satires written in English was an essay titled "A Modest Proposal" published by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the poor sell their children as food for the rich if they are in need of food and money. This was Swift's way of mocking heartless attitudes toward impoverished people and lack of strong governmental policies to aid them. This essay is also considered a strong example of irony and hyperbole.