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RAKING Literature

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works. Including poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction

a)

Genre

b)

Literature

c)

Rhetorical

d)

Discursive

2.

It is a kind or type of literature. Comedy, mystery, tragedy, satire, romance, science fiction. Feelings for the audience.

a)

Imagery

b)

Dialogue

c)

Genre

d)

Literary Term

3.

The sequence of events that occur through work to produce a coherent narrative or story.

a)

Style

b)

Point of view

c)

Symbolism

d)

Plot

4.

He was influenced by Romantic poets. He was the first American writer.

a)

Irwin Shaw

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Ernest Hemingway

5.

It is a living or nonliving object representing.

a)

Plot

b)

Symbolism

c)

Point of view

d)

Theme

6.

The narrator attempts to prove his own sanity in the wake of having murdered an old man. The unreliable narrator explains that he loved the old man very much, but was disturbed by the old man's "evil eye," which he alleges drove him to murder.

a)

Hills like white elephants

b)

The girls in their summer dresses

c)

The telltale heart

d)

The black cat

7.

This story opens with a long description of the story's setting in a train station surrounded by hills, fields, and trees in a valley in Spain.

a)

The telltale heart

b)

To build a fire

c)

The black cat

d)

Hills like white elephants

8.

The tone of this short story is ironic because the main character starts describing the pets as all caring and ends with a violent tone fairly quickly.

a)

Hills like white elephants

b)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

c)

To build a fire

d)

The black cat

9.

The theme of this story is related to the cost of masculinity and the limits of individualism. Humans versus nature

a)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

b)

To build a fire

c)

The black cat

d)

Lenore

10.

It is a literary device, featured particularly in poetry, in which identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated. Rhyme most often occurs at the ends of poetic lines.

a)

Genre

b)

Rhythm

c)

Rhyme

d)

Iambic

11.

It is a way of speaking that is used to make a comparison between two things that are not the same but have something in common.

a)

Rhyme

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Literature

12.

It is a feature of four lines of verse. It is a foundational poetic device because it is compatible with different rhythmic patterns and rhyme schemes.

a)

Quatrain

b)

Sonnete

c)

Metaphor

d)

Iambic

13.

The formal definition is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.” It’s an extremely broad category.

a)

Rhyme

b)

Metaphor

c)

Drama

d)

Satire

14.

This story is about an old witch makes a scarecrow; with the help of the devil she endows this creature with life, and sends it forth to woo the daughter of her bitter enemy.

a)

To build a fire

b)

The girls in their summer dresses

c)

Feathertop

d)

Hills like white elephants

15.

It involves using literary devices and techniques like consonance, assonance, spelling, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, acronym, pun, and slang

a)

Sonnete

b)

Rhythm

c)

Play

d)

Satire

16.

It is a long o short narrative literary work. It applies a natural flow of speech and ordinary grammatical structure.

a)

Satire

b)

Sonnete

c)

Poem

d)

Prose

17.

The setting of the story takes place in the sitting room of a house at night. The narrator is a servant of some sort who takes care of the "old man" but is haunted by the man's evil eye

a)

The black cat

b)

The telltale heart

c)

To build a fire

d)

Hills like white elephants

18.

It is a literary term that shows how the story is told, who tells the story.

a)

Setting

b)

Plot

c)

Genre

d)

Point of view

19.

The speaker asks whether he should compare the young man to a summer's day, but notes that the young man has qualities that surpass a summer's day.

a)

The Girls in their summer dresses

b)

The black cat

c)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

d)

Hills like white elephants

20.

is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Traditionally, it is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes.

a)

Iambic

b)

Sonnete

c)

Rhythm

d)

Poem

21.

The author from the book The Unbearable Lightness Of Being:

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

Jack London

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Milan Kundera