WorksheetsEOC TERMS 3
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is “satire”?
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
What is suspense?
a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
None of the above
What is theme?
a play for theater, radio, television, or literature.
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.
a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience
T or F: An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.
True
False
What is a drama?
A play for theatre
A play for radio
A play for television
A play for literature
All of the above
Which of the following is correct?
Soliloquies are not monologues
They are not spoken to others
They are thoughts
An epic is.... a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
True
False
An example of an epithet is...
Alexander the Great
Harry Potter
Junie B Jones
All of the above
An epithet is....
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
A comparison using like or as
An extreme exaggeration
A hubris is .... and an example of this is
describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence.
Ex. a politician who thinks he's too beloved to lose an election and chooses to skip campaigning.
a message or lesson learned at the end of a story
Ex. Be yourself
Alliteration is....
Repetition of the initial sounds of words.
is giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.
reference to a preexisting person, work, event, or well-known piece of pop culture
Assonance is....
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
stable phrase or a words’ group that has a specific and rather different meaning from its constituents’ literal sense meaning.
suggests that sounds or noises are embodied by words that consist of similar sounds
Connotation is....
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
The color blue is associated with the feeling of sadness.
Blank verse is...
Rhythmic
Verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme.
Another name for free verse
Consonance is
a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough.
denotation is The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless of what one may feel about it or the suggestions and ideas it connotes
True
False
What is iambic pentameter
type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
A sound and feeling attached
Attitude
Tone and voice
imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image
True
False
extended metaphor is an author’s use of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story.
True
False
An example of prose is
Novels
Textbooks
Human lectures
Prose is ... a form of written or spoken language that typically exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure.
True
False
What is a pun?
a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
N/A
a hero that suffers a tragic downfall
