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WorksheetsLiterary Terms 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Flashback
a)
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
b)
Discrepancy between appearances and reality.
c)
Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker.
d)
Atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected
2.
A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situations to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme
a)
Theme
b)
Mood
c)
Motif
d)
Repetition
3.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." is an example of....
a)
Flashback
b)
Parallelism
c)
Theme
d)
Soliloquy
4.
Literary movement that originated in late nineteenth century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality.
a)
Imagery
b)
Metaphor
c)
Personification
d)
Symbolism
5.
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization
a)
Theme
b)
Tone
c)
Vernacular
d)
Dialect
6.
Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit
a)
Theme
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Irony
d)
Metaphor
7.
A speaker or writer's choice of words
a)
Diction
b)
Description
c)
Explication
d)
Figurative Language
8.
A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.
a)
Farce
b)
Fable
c)
Parable
d)
Parody
9.
Very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life
a)
Farce
b)
Fable
c)
Parable
d)
Parody
10.
Seriously funny, awfully pretty, foolish wisdom are examples of....
a)
Couplet
b)
Dialect
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Cliche
11.
"He's out of his head if he thinks I'm gonna go for such a stupid idea" is an example of...
a)
Colloquialism
b)
Cliche
c)
Chiasmus
d)
Hyperbole
12.
Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance.
a)
Balance
b)
Parallelism
c)
Alliteration
d)
Antithesis
13.
Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture
a)
Allusion
b)
Ambiguity
c)
Alliteration
d)
Allegory
14.
Associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase
a)
Connotation
b)
Diction
c)
Pun
d)
Simile
15.
Insults provoke. James sleeps. Conflict subsides. Bob runs.
These are examples of....
These are examples of....
a)
Telegraphic sentences
b)
Syntactic permutation sentences
c)
Quatrain sentences
d)
Paratactic sentences
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