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review literature 1

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tick all the lyric genres

a)

Elegy

b)

Ode

c)

Saga

d)

Parable

e)

Poem

2.

Tick all the narrative genres

a)

Tragedy

b)

Novel

c)

Letter

d)

Song

e)

Story

3.

Tick all the genres of drama

a)

Vaudeville

b)

Novel

c)

Ballad

d)

Legend

e)

Elegy

4.

What genre is this?

"If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine the Great

a)

song

b)

epigram

c)

elegy

d)

parable

5.

"Of Mice and Men", "At the Mountains of Madness", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" are all examples of_______

a)

hymn

b)

legend

c)

stapstick comedy

d)

novella

6.

Raven, Oh Captain My Captain, Beat Beat Drums are all examples of______

a)

short stories

b)

tragedies

c)

poems

d)

songs

7.

Complete the name of Shakespeare's hometown: (a)   upon Avon

8.

What was the name of Shakespeare's theater in London? (Write it without the article)

(a)  

9.

What was the name of the character who wanted to avenge his father, murdered by his own brother?

(a)  

10.

In a phrase "my weakness is my strength" what stylistic device can we observe?

a)

alliteration

b)

paradox

c)

pun

d)

rhetorical question

11.

What stylistic device can you hear in this line?

While I nodded, nearly napping,

Suddenly there came a tapping...

a)

repetition

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

symbol

12.

How do you call this stylistic device?

(See the picture)

a)

pun

b)

repetition

c)

rhetorical question

d)

onomatopoeia

13.

Tick all the Brontë sisters.

a)

Anne

b)

Charlotte

c)

Emily

d)

Jane

e)

Lenore

14.

What stylistic device is used in all these sentences?

1. The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

2. The clouds were edged with pink and gold.

3. After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.

4. The tree bark was rough against her skin.

a)

metaphor

b)

litotes

c)

pathetic fallacy

d)

imagery

15.

What movement do these characteristics describe?

Being against the Industrial Revolution, being nostalgic about the past, admiration of nature, romanticizing humans

a)

romanticism

b)

rationalism

c)

decadence

d)

mysticism

16.

What poetic foot is used here?

The bat come in

In ashen flume

Of chimney dust,

Flies room to room.

The door's ajar,

The window too.

The bat flies by

But won't go through.

a)

trochee (SU)

b)

iamb (US)

c)

Anapest (UUS)

d)

Spondee (SS)

17.

What do rooms represent in the Masque of Red Death?

a)

Personality of each guest of the masquerade

b)

Periods of financial prosperity of the Prince

c)

Rainbow colors

d)

Different periods of life

18.

The allegory of the Masque of Red Death is about...

a)

how unfair the society is

b)

how dangerous it is to throw parties

c)

how inevitable death is

d)

how we can protect ourselves from epidemics

19.

What's the name of Walt Whitman's collection of poems?

a)

Leaves of a Tree

b)

Leaves of Grass

c)

Grass of the Forest

d)

Forest Leaves

20.

The words crash, ribbit, meow, rattle, slam, moo, buzz are all examples of...

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

imagery

d)

personification

21.

Oh Captain, my Captain is...

a)

an epitaph

b)

a drama

c)

an elegy

d)

a ballad

22.

Who is Oh Captain, my Captain dedicated to?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

George Washington

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Edgar Allan Poe