Literature Terms and Concepts Final quiz

...to escape in my own thoughts, ...to escape from my thoughts, ...to escape; however, ONLY in my thoughts.... What poetry device is being used in this poem?

• Epistrophe
• Anaphora
• Alliteration
• Repetition

What is the poetic device that has a repetition of clauses at the end of a piece of literature, poem, or speech? Ex: “…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”

• Anaphora
• Enjambment
• Epistrophe

Shakespeare's sonnets are written with a specific meter. What is that called?

• Meter
• Stanza
• Iambic pentameter
• quatrain

What structure is poetry written?

• Paragraphs and sentences
• Rhyme and meter
• Lines and stanzas
• None of these

The pattern of the last word in a line of rhyming poetry is called the...?

• Meter
• Iambic pentameter
• Enjambment
• Rhyme scheme

What terms is used to describe the time and place of a story?

• tone
• theme
• setting
• mood

The part of the plot where the "big moment" occurs and the action using shifts?

• rising action
• denouement
• exposition
• climax

What terms means the overall lesson, lesson about life, or moral that a story provides?

• theme
• foreshadowing
• plot
• flashback

"Smooth move" is an example of this type of irony.

• situational
• verbal aka sarcasm
• dramatic

This term is associated with the writers "attitude" toward the subject.

• mood
• voice
• tone
• symbol