WorksheetsQuiz 3: Literary Terms & Rhetorical Devices
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Reflective poems that lament the loss of someone or something.
a)
Elegy
b)
Ambiguity
c)
Aside
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Fallacy
2.
Lack of clarity or uncertainty in meaning.
a)
Ambiguity
b)
Aside
c)
Colloquialism
d)
Elegy
e)
Fallacy
3.
A character trait that brings about the downfall of the hero or heroine.
a)
Tragic Flaw
b)
Inference
c)
Metonymy
d)
Pathetic Fallacy
e)
Rhetorical Question
4.
The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.
a)
Colloquialism
b)
Ambiguity
c)
Aside
d)
Elegy
e)
Fallacy
5.
The attribution of human traits and emotions to inanimate nature.
a)
Inference
b)
Metonymy
c)
Pathetic Fallacy
d)
Rhetorical Question
e)
Tragic Flaw
6.
A convention in drama whereby a character onstage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling.
a)
Aside
b)
Ambiguity
c)
Colloquialism
d)
Elegy
e)
Fallacy
7.
Deductions or conclusions readers make based on information available.
a)
Inference
b)
Metonymy
c)
Pathetic Fallacy
d)
Rhetorical Question
e)
Tragic Flaw
8.
An erroneous argument that is dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention.
a)
Fallacy
b)
Ambiguity
c)
Aside
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Elegy
9.
A question asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected.
a)
Inference
b)
Metonymy
c)
Pathetic Fallacy
d)
Rhetorical Question
e)
Tragic Flaw
10.
A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
a)
Inference
b)
Metonymy
c)
Pathetic Fallacy
d)
Rhetorical Question
e)
Tragic Flaw
11.
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
a)
Metonymy
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Elegy
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Rhetorical Question
12.
“They rowed her in across the rolling foam—/The cruel, crawling foam.”
a)
Metonymy
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Elegy
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Rhetorical Question
13.
“Busy old fool, unruly Sun… Saucy pedantic wretch.”
a)
Metonymy
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Elegy
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Rhetorical Question
14.
“O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
a)
Metonymy
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Elegy
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Rhetorical Question
15.
“Deep with the first dead lies London’s daughter,/Robed in the long friends,/The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,/Secret by the unmourning water/Of the riding Thames./After the first death, there is no other.”
a)
Metonymy
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Elegy
d)
Colloquialism
e)
Rhetorical Question
16.
Images, figures, character types, settings, and story patterns that, according to the Swiss analytic psychologist Carl Jung, are universally shared by people across cultures.
a)
Allusion
b)
Archetype
c)
Idiom
d)
Meiosis
e)
Rhetoric
17.
The art of persuasion through speaking and writing.
a)
Allusion
b)
Archetype
c)
Idiom
d)
Meiosis
e)
Rhetoric
18.
A trope employing deliberate understatement, usually for comic, ironic, or satirical effect.
a)
Allusion
b)
Archetype
c)
Idiom
d)
Meiosis
e)
Rhetoric
19.
An indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work.
a)
Allusion
b)
Archetype
c)
Idiom
d)
Meiosis
e)
Rhetoric
20.
An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
a)
Allusion
b)
Archetype
c)
Idiom
d)
Meiosis
e)
Rhetoric
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