Literary Terms Quiz

What is true of enjambment?

A new movement in 18th century Europe that focused on emotion was ... .

• the Enlightenment

• Romanticism

• the Age of Reason

"... black wires grow on her head" is an example of ... .

• simile

• metaphor

• stereotype

is when the speaker means the complete opposite of what they say.

• Verbal irony

• Malapropism

• Bathos

Slant rhymes are also called ... .

• half rhymes

• perfect rhymes

• stressed rhymes

Juxtaposition is a literary device that compares two ... ideas.

• related

• straightforward

• opposing

In poems written in iambic tetrameter, each line has ... syllables in total.

• 8

• 4

• 3

Which extract from Robinson Crusoe shows simile?

• "I stood like one thunder-struck"

• "fancying every stump at a distance to be a man"

• "I was so happy as not to be thereabouts at the time"

The extract "the clear brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom" is an example of ... imagery.

• tactile

• olfactory

• visual

"The Tattoo lady waved back at Nazneen" is an example of ... imagery.

• tactile

• kinaesthetic

• organic