The following includes an example of which term?

“I rode a black horse in red pajamas.”

The following includes an example of which term?

Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens. She compares the movement of the white clouds in the sky at night with that of the white mares on the ground.

Select the term that matches the definition.

"detailed examination of the elements or structure of something"

The following includes an example of which term?

"the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, who opposes and wants to destroy Snow White"

The following includes an example of which term?

Adeline bit her lip.

The following includes an example of which term?

"Romeo & Juliet"

The following includes an example of which term? Select the BEST response.

"the traditional haiku, the tanka, the limerick, the cinquain, and the villanelle"

Select the term that matches the definition.

"a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved"

The following includes an example of which term?

John Agard's Checking Out Me History is an example of ________________ but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and rhythm but not in a regular pattern.

The following includes an example of which term?

"Sparta attacked Athens, and they won."

The following includes an example of which term?

Juliet speaks her thoughts aloud when she learns that Romeo is the son of her family's enemy: O Romeo, Romeo!

Select the term that matches the definition.

"(in fictional writing) the narrator's position in relation to a story being told"

The following includes an example of which term?

Bad: awful, terrible, horrible.

Good: fine, excellent, great.

Hot: burning, fiery, boiling.

Cold: chilly, freezing, frosty.

Easy: Simple, effortless, straightforward.

Hard: difficult, challenging, tough.

Big: large, huge, giant.

Small: tiny, little, mini.

Match the definition to the term.

A character speaks to the silent listener. This type has theatrical qualities, hence, it is known as ______________ and is frequently used in poetry.

Match the definition to the term.

describes a particular argument at a particular point in time

Match the definition to the term.

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

The following includes an example of which term?

The place where idea, action, and character intersect.

Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles opens with 5 people entering the kitchen of an Iowa farmhouse on a winter morning. Three are men: the county prosecutor, the county sheriff, and the owner of a neighboring farm who the day before happened to visit the house and discovered his neighbor, John Wright, strangled in bed, and Wright’s wife Minnie in a strange mind-wandering condition, barely able to attend to his questions, and with no apparent idea of what has happened. The other two are women: the wife of the sheriff and the wife of the neighbor. They have come along to gather some clothes for Minnie Wright, who is now in custody in the county jail on suspicion of murder. The two lawmen have come to try to discover what might have been a motive for Mrs. Wright to have killed her husband. Without a convincing motive, the prosecutor will be unable to prove an essential statutory element of the crime of murder (in either the first or second degree).

The following includes an example of which term?

The place where idea, action, and character intersect.

In the middle of a typical argument with his wife, a man realizes he has been the one causing every single argument, and that in order to keep his marriage, he must stop being such an aggressive person.

The following includes an example of which term?

Emily Dickinson's 'Hope Is the Thing With Feathers'. She compares hope to a bird and creates examples to make this image stronger.

The following includes an example of which term?

"The Dust That Falls From Dreams," Louis de Bernieres

One hundred and one summers after the guns of August sounded, Louis de Bernieres gave us this poignant novel following the fates of three invented families through World War I. In so doing, he added a worthy entry to this year’s stories about bomber pilots with charmed lives (see: A God in Ruins), as well as providing the view from the trenches, the hospitals and the English countryside. But even better than de Bernieres’ prismatic coverage of war is his depiction of ensuing peace. “What are we supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over?” one character asks. The answer is to live, drawing from grief and resignation the hard-won freedom to start anew.

The following includes an example of which term?

“A powerful connection exists between animals and humans.”

The following includes an example of which term?

"He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!-so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!" - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The definition "pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables" best explains the term:

The definition "the time described by a verb" best explains the term:

Hint: We used to go to the park.

The following includes an example of which term?

"He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!-so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!" - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The following includes an example of which term?

You win 10 million dollars in a lottery. You tell a news reporter, “it's been a nice day.”

The main _______________ of a poem is to convey an idea or emotion in beautiful language.

The following includes an example of which term?

"In a western movie, the good guy enters a bar, has a drink, and leaves. The bad guy scowls and spits on the floor."

The following includes an example of which term?

Five eggs, pen-scribbled o'er with ink their shells

Resembling writing scrawls which fancy reads

As nature's poesy and pastoral spells—

The definition "a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter" best explains the term:

The definition "lacking in harmony between the different parts or elements; self-contradictory" best explains the term:

The following includes an example of which term?

A hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;

Two hundred to adore each breast;

But thirty thousand to the rest.

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing"

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "encompasses a highly emotional story that's written in verse and meant to be recited. It usually tells a story or refers to a specific situation"

The following includes an example of which term?

Charles Dickens creates a calm and peaceful mood in his novel Pickwick Papers: “The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”

The following includes an example of which term?

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect — the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever — Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, for ever desiring —(a cry starts to the left, another to the right. Wheels strike divergently. Omnibuses conglomerate in conflict)— for ever desiring — (the clock asseverates with twelve distinct strokes that it is midday; light sheds gold scales; children swarm)— for ever desiring truth. Red is the dome; coins hang on the trees; smoke trails from the chimneys; bark, shout, cry “Iron for sale”— and truth? Radiating to a point men’s feet and women’s feet, black or goldencrusted —(This foggy weather — Sugar? No, thank you — The commonwealth of the future)— the firelight darting and making the room red, save for the black figures and their bright eyes, while outside a van discharges, Miss Thingummy drinks tea at her desk, and plate-glass preserves fur coats — Flaunted, leaf — light, drifting at corners, blown across the wheels, silver-splashed, home or not home, gathered, scattered, squandered in separate scales, swept up, down, torn, sunk, assembled — and truth? Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble. From ivory depths words rising shed their blackness, blossom and penetrate. Fallen the book; in the flame, in the smoke, in the momentary sparks — or now voyaging, the marble square pendant, minarets beneath and the Indian seas, while space rushes blue and stars glint — truth? content with closeness? Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them.

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition"

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "composed of parts or the organization of something"

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

they have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.

The stage is an example of a:

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "a set of reasons used in order to reach a conclusion"

I’m going to share a story with you. It’s not an easy one to witness, for it’s about one of the worst things that ever happened to me. Others may tell it differently, but only in my version will you hear the entire truth, because only I know the real devastation of the events that unfolded on the day that changed my life forever.

My name is George, and I’m a professional speed eater. This is about the time I lost the most important hotdog eating contest of my life.

George is the _________________________.

The following is an example of:

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

The following is an example of:

It starts in 1964 as the hero, Jake LaMotto (De Niro) is rehearsing for a one-man show. The movie ends when Jake walks on stage to deliver the show. What happens in between is the stuff of Oscar-winning films. Through a series of amazing flashbacks, we get the story of how Jake became a pro boxer, married a woman he thought he loved, and lost everything along the way. This enables us to understand why he's an overweight loser at the end of the film doing stand-up for a living.

The following includes an example of which term?

"Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, And not a drop to drink."

The following includes an example of which term?

"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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

The following includes an example of which term?

"“It is an unspoken hunger we deflect with knives – one avocado between us, cut neatly in half, twisted then separated from the large wooden pit. With the green fleshy boats in hand, we slice vertical strips from one end to the other. Vegetable planks. We smother the avocado with salsa, hot chiles at noon in the desert. We look at each other and smile, eating avocados with sharp silver blades, risking the blood of our tongues repeatedly.”

Here, Williams creates a dangerous _______________, where she presents the hazards of knives and avocados. In fact, when an author tries to establish _____________ by using objects, these objects represent unspoken reality.

The following includes an example of which term?

The audience and readers of Macbeth usually pity the tragic central figure of the play because he was blinded by his destructive preoccupation with ambition. Their emotion is released at the end of the story.

________________ can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.

The following includes an example of which term?

"These are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salma, Salma was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed, Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David." The manner of narration started from the ancestor down to the posterity.

The following includes an example of which term?

"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering." — Yoda, in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

The following includes an example of which term?

Two friends fight over a boy, but in the end, they realize that friendship is more important, and the boy ultimately moves away from the town anyway.

The room is an example of which term?

I peek

in the other room

quiet clicks, cups of black

coffee, click, click like facts

budgets, tenure, curriculum,

from careful women in crisp beige

suits, quick beige smiles

the seldom sneak into their eyes

The speaker peeking into the next room is an example of which term?

Sonrisas

by Pat Mora

I live in a doorway

between two rooms. I hear

quiet clicks, cups of black

coffee, click, click like facts

budgets, tenure, curriculum,

from careful women in crisp beige

suits, quick beige smiles

that seldom sneak into their eyes.

I peek

in the other room señoras

in faded dresses stir sweet

milk coffee, laughter whirls

with steam from fresh tamales

sh, sh, mucho ruido,

they scold one another,

press their lips, trap smiles

in their dark, Mexican eyes.

The italicized portion is an example of which term?

Jerry's mind wandered during class

Like a balloon floating up in the air.

While he daydreamed about eating lunch

His stomach growled loud like a bear.

His classmates laughed like hyenas,

Which made him feel like a fool.

From now on he'd listen to his mom

And eat breakfast before coming to school.

The italicized portion is an example of which term?

Monsters

BY DOROTHEA LASKY

This is a world where there are monsters

There are monsters everywhere, racoons and skunks

There are possums outside, there are monsters in my bed.

There is one monster. He is my little one.

I talk to my little monster.

I give my little monster some bacon but that does not satisfy him.

I tell him, ssh ssh, don’t growl little monster!

And he growls, oh boy does he growl!

And he wants something from me,

He wants my soul.

And finally giving in, I give him my gleaming soul

And as he eats my gleaming soul, I am one with him

And stare out his eyepits and I see nothing but white

And then I see nothing but fog and the white I had seen before was nothing but fog

And there is nothing but fog out the eyes of monsters.

The following includes an example of which term?

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "is a rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas"

The following includes the struggle between "we" and "America." This an example of which term?

Of History and Hope

BY MILLER WILLIAMS

We have memorized America,

how it was born and who we have been and where.

In ceremonies and silence we say the words,

telling the stories, singing the old songs.

We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.

The great and all the anonymous dead are there.

We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.

The rich taste of it is on our tongues.

But where are we going to be, and why, and who?

The disenfranchised dead want to know.

We mean to be the people we meant to be,

to keep on going where we meant to go.

But how do we fashion the future? Who can say how

except in the minds of those who will call it Now?

The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?

With waving hands—oh, rarely in a row—

and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.

Identify the who the speaker is struggling with the in the poem. This struggle is an example of which term?

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

BY RANDALL JARRELL

The saris go by me from the embassies.

Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet.

They look back at the leopard like the leopard.

And I....

this print of mine, that has kept its color

Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null

Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so

To my bed, so to my grave, with no

Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief,

The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief—

Only I complain.... this serviceable

Body that no sunlight dyes, no hand suffuses

But, dome-shadowed, withering among columns,

Wavy beneath fountains—small, far-off, shining

In the eyes of animals, these beings trapped

As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,

Aging, but without knowledge of their age,

Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death—

Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!

The world goes by my cage and never sees me.

And there come not to me, as come to these,

The wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas’ grain,

Pigeons settling on the bears’ bread, buzzards

Tearing the meat the flies have clouded....

Vulture,

When you come for the white rat that the foxes left,

Take off the red helmet of your head, the black

Wings that have shadowed me, and step to me as man:

The wild brother at whose feet the white wolves fawn,

To whose hand of power the great lioness

Stalks, purring....

You know what I was,

You see what I am: change me, change me!

The speaker in the poem reflect an example of which term?

Cat

BY MARILYN SINGER

I prefer

warm fur,

a perfect fire

to lie beside,

a cozy lap

where I can nap,

an empty chair

when she's not there.

I want heat

on my feet

on my nose

on my hide.

No cat I remember

dislikes December

inside.

The following includes an example of which term?

In the ballad of The Cruel Mother, in which a mother remembers her murdered child. While going to church, she remembers her child's birth, growing up, and death. Later, she thinks back further to a distant time in her past to remember how her own mother was ruthless to her.

The following presentation of the character best provides an example of which term?

…having knocked gently, young Linton entered, his face brilliant with delight at the unexpected summon she had received. Doubtless Catherine marked the difference between her friends, as one came in and the other went out. The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect. He had a sweet, low manner of speaking, and pronounced his words as you do: that’s less gruff than we talk here, and softer.

The following presentation of the character best provides an example of which term?

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The protagonist and narrator, Alex, is a notoriously brutal character who does not feel a sense of responsibility to anything or anyone other than himself. His lack of credibility feels deliberate and coy straight off the bat. He speaks 'Nadsat,' a dialect that confounds other characters and keeps the reader on their back foot. He is also a skilled manipulator who excels in getting others to let their guards down.

The following presentation of the character best provides an example of which term?

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The protagonist and narrator, Alex, is a notoriously brutal character who does not feel a sense of responsibility to anything or anyone other than himself. His lack of credibility feels deliberate and coy straight off the bat. He speaks 'Nadsat,' a dialect that confounds other characters and keeps the reader on their back foot. He is also a skilled manipulator who excels in getting others to let their guards down.

What term is best represented by the example below?

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, one part of the cardinal rule is this statement:

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Fill in the blank: She was so adept with her body language that the _____________ of her gestures often expressed far more than the words which accompanied them.

King's repetition of "I have a dream" also creates ______________. Fill in the blank.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

The speaking rattlesnake is an example of:

What the Rattlesnake Said

BY VACHEL LINDSAY

The Moon's a little prairie-dog.

He shivers through the night.

He sits upon his hill and cries

For fear that I will bite.

The Sun's a broncho. He's afraid

Like every other thing,

And trembles morning, noon and night

Lest I should spring and sting.

The speaking sunflowers is an example of:

“Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,”

said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

“Our traveling habits have tired us.

Can you give us a room with a view?”

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "serves as a lens through which readers observe characters, events, and happenings"

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence"

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "the main statement of a poem, an essay, a short story, or a novel, which usually appears as an introduction, or a point on which the writer will develop his work in order to convince his readers"

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "the thing that a word or phrase denotes or stands for."

“The Morning Star” and “the Evening Star” have the same _________________ (the planet Venus).

The poem describes what the speaker sees by the lake. The italicized portion is an example of what he literally sees. This is an example of which term?

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

The humor in the scene is created through a confusion of the ____________ of the word "Elf" outside of the North Pole.

Buddy: I didn’t know you had elves working here!

Miles: Oh, well, you’re, you’re hilarious, My Friend.

Walter: He doesn’t, uh… Get back to the story, please.

Miles: All right, okay. [Clears throat] So, on the cover, about the title…

Buddy: Does Santa know that you left the workshop?

Miles: You know, we’re all laughing our heads off…

Buddy: Did you have to borrow a reindeer to get down here?

Walter: Buddy, go back to the basement.

Miles: Hey, Jackweed. I get more action in a week than you’ve had in your entire life. I’ve got houses in L.A., Paris & Vail, each one with a 70-Inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over and smack it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time!

Buddy: [Whispering] He’s an angry elf.

[Miles runs across the table to charge at Buddy.]

"Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind" (Khalil Gibran – Sand & Foam) is an example of a:

Choose the term that best matches the definition, "the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language"

For example, the phrase “all hands on deck” is a demand for all of the crew to help, yet the word “hands”—just a part of the crew—stands in for the whole crew. This is an example of:

What literary device is used to support characterization?

“To begin with the differences: Lenin was cruel, which Gladstone was not; Lenin had no respect for tradition, whereas Gladstone had a great deal; Lenin considered all means legitimate for securing the victory of his party, whereas for Gladstone politics was a game with certain rules that must be observed. All these differences, to my mind, are to the advantage of Gladstone, and accordingly Gladstone on the whole had beneficent effects, while Lenin’s effects were disastrous.”

Two lines of poetry is called a:

For example, the poet John Donne uses _____________ in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?

Eight lines of poetry is called a:

Six lines of poetry is called a:

_________________ refers to the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line. It's annotated with letters. For example, a four-line stanza with an ABAB rhyme scheme means the first and third lines rhyme and the second and fourth lines rhyme.

Three lines of poetry is called a:

Seven lines of poetry is called a:

An _______ is a kind of poem, usually praising something. A famous example is John Keats' "________ on a Grecian Urn." ... The word _______ comes from a Greek word for "song," and like a song, an _______ is made up of verses and can have a complex meter.

It began as a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Although flourishes have been made over time, the general principle remains the same.