Literary Terms and Ideas for Understanding Literature

What is indirect characterization?

• a technique where an author reveals a character's personality through their actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and interactions with other characters

• Text that directly stating the traits of a character .

• When there is no description of the character's appearance.

• When there is no description of the character's action or speech.

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Is it important to consider history when reading a text to understand it better?

• Yes, history is important because it will reveal all the answers to every question.

• No, considering history is never important when reading a text.

• Yes, history is important to consider because important information may be connected.

• No, one can read a text and it will not be important to consider history, because it never repeats itself.

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Dialect is

• This happens when characters do not speak at all.

• This is when characters speak different languages.

• This happens when a character does not have an accent.

• This is the regional language of characters or rather where they originated from.

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An idiom is...

• a phrase that has nothing to do with the text and makes no sense

• a phrase whose meaning cannot be derived from the literal meanings of the words within it

• a phrase that only the dumb characters use

• a phrase used in a text which is used across the entire English language

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hyperbole

• Understatement of a situation in a text

• a figure of speech that employs exaggeration for emphasis, dramatic effect, or to create a humorous image

• text that explains everything in simple plain language

• text that uses very rapid explanations of complex material

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Paradox

• Text that makes complete sense, but does not reveal any truth.

• Text that defines itself in a circular pattern of continuing the situation

• a contradictory statement that reveals the truth

• a contradictory statement that does not reveal the truth

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Juxtaposition

• Ideas that blend together in a text until there is only one main idea.

• Separate ideas in a text, kept completely apart.

• The text explains ideas in a direct way.

• a technique where contrasting ideas, characters, or elements are placed side by side to highlight their differences and create a specific effect

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Inference

• a technique where contrasting ideas, characters, or elements are placed side by side to highlight their differences and create a specific effect

• a technique where the ideas flow together and the reader does not need to annotate

• a technique where the ideas always follow in a chronological fashion

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What is a stanza in a poem?

• a group of lines that make up the entire poem

• a group of lines with no breaks to form an entire poem

• a group of lines that forms a distinct unit within a poem,

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What does the word connotation mean?

• word or phrase with a neutral meaning that doesn't carry a strong positive or negative implication

• words or phrases that do not connect in any way in a text.

• the emotional or social associations a word carries beyond its dictionary definition.

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