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WorksheetsUnit 3 Lit Terms
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which is the correct definition of "Paradox"?
A sentence begins with facts or descriptions, and the main idea of the sentence is near the end.
A sentence that at its initial reading seems contradictory but when studied closely has a truth to it.
Contains a subject and a predicate with little else around it.
Which is the correct definition of "Anaphora"?
phrases that begin with the same exact clause and occur over many sentences
to bring things together without using connective words
Reveals the main idea at the beginning of a sentence, and the remaining clauses or phrases are not essential to understanding the main idea.
What is a "Loose Sentence"?
Bringing things together without connective words.
A sentence that reveals the main idea at the beginning, followed by clauses and phrases to add more information.
Phrases that begin with the same clause and repeat over several sentences.
"Early to bed, early to rise."
Benjamin Franklin
Which structural device is this an example of?
Polysyndeton
Parallelism
Anaphora
“And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters..."
The Holy Bible, Joshua 7:24 (By the Prophet Joshua)
Polysyndeton
Periodic Sentence
Simple Sentence
“Call up her father.
Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen..."
Othello (By William Shakespeare)
Periodic Sentence
Asyndeton
Parallelism
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
Animal Farm (By George Orwell)
Paradox
Parallelism
Anaphora
"The rain finally stopped."
Parallelism
Polysyndeton
Simple Sentence
“Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.”
I have a Dream (By Martin Luther King Jr.)
Anaphora
Polydyndeton
Loose Sentence
“The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse.”
More Die of Heartbreak (by Saul Bellow)
Periodic Sentence
Anaphora
Loose Sentence
"Out of the cloud-folds of her garment shaken, over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent and soft, and slow, descends the snow."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Snowflakes
Paradox
Simple Sentence
Periodic Sentence
What is "asyndeton"?
Contains a subject and predicate with little else around it.
Repetitive of clauses with lots of connecting words
Repetition of sentences without connecting words
