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Literary Terms #5 (61-75)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Someone who tells a story.

a)

Narrator

b)

Satire

c)

Pun

d)

Meter

2.

A short novel usually under 100 pages.

a)

Prequel

b)

Sequel

c)

Novella

d)

Prologue

3.

Language opposite from emotive language as it is literal or even objective in nature.

a)

Neutral language

b)

Ode

c)

Slang

d)

Prose

4.

Imperfect rhyme scheme.

a)

Poetic justice

b)

Pun

c)

Trochee

d)

Oblique rhyme

5.

A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.

a)

Ode

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Soliloquy

d)

Sonnet

6.

Onomatopoeia

a)

Play on words, when two words have multiple meanings and spellings and are used in a humorous manner.

b)

The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

c)

Solution to the conflict in literature.

d)

A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.

7.

Paradox

a)

An account of the personal experiences of an author.

b)

A dominant theme or central idea

c)

Solution to the conflict in literature.

d)

Statement which seems to contradict itself.

8.

Parody

a)

An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play.

b)

A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.

c)

Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another.

d)

The alter ego of a character-the suppressed side of one’s personality that is usually unaccepted by society

9.

Personification

a)

The repetition of sounds in words

b)

A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel.

c)

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

d)

A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities.

10.

Poetic justice

a)

Word choice or the use of words in speech or writing

b)

The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice in the resolution of a plot. The character, as they say, gets what he/she deserves.

c)

Reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader.

d)

Two rhyming lines in poetry.

11.

A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel.

a)

Prequel

b)

Rising action

c)

Genre

d)

Memoir

12.

Prologue

a)

Solution to the conflict in literature

b)

Play on words

c)

An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play

d)

Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form

13.

Protagonist

a)

The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

b)

Literary work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule

c)

A secondary character in a drama or literary work

d)

The main character in a drama or literary work

14.

Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form. EX:/ Novels and short stories

a)

Prose

b)

Poetry

c)

Tone

d)

Fable

15.

Pun

a)

Two rhyming lines in poetry

b)

Play on words

c)

A dominant theme or central idea

d)

the repetition of sounds in words