WorksheetsQuiz 4: Literary Criticism Terminology
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables, followed by different consonant sounds in proximate words
a)
Assonance
b)
Anachronism
c)
Anthropomorphism
d)
Conceit
e)
Enjambment
2.
Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution.
a)
Invective
b)
Motif
c)
Pathos
d)
Satire
e)
Trite
3.
Something outside of its proper historical time period.
a)
Anachronism
b)
Anthropomorphism
c)
Assonance
d)
Conceit
e)
Enjambment
4.
Not interesting or effective because of being used too often: not fresh or original.
a)
Invective
b)
Motif
c)
Pathos
d)
Satire
e)
Trite
5.
A quality in a work or a portion thereof that makes the reader experience pity, sorrow, or tenderness.
a)
Invective
b)
Motif
c)
Pathos
d)
Satire
e)
Trite
6.
A literary genre or mode that uses irony, wit, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity’s vices and foibles.
a)
Invective
b)
Motif
c)
Pathos
d)
Satire
e)
Trite
7.
Attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being.
a)
Anthropomorphism
b)
Anachronism
c)
Assonance
d)
Conceit
e)
Enjambment
8.
A poetic statement that spans more than one line.
a)
Enjambment
b)
Anachronism
c)
Anthropomorphism
d)
Assonance
e)
Conceit
9.
A recurrent, unifying element in an artistic work, such as an image, symbol, character type, action, idea, object, or phrase.
a)
Invective
b)
Motif
c)
Pathos
d)
Satire
e)
Trite
10.
A figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor.
a)
Conceit
b)
Anachronism
c)
Anthropomorphism
d)
Assonance
e)
Enjambment
11.
“Horatio, I am dead.”
a)
Invective
b)
Enjambment
c)
Conceit
d)
Assonance
e)
Anachronism
12.
“The holy time is quiet as a Nun/Breathless with adoration; the broad sun/Is sinking down in its tranquility.”
a)
Invective
b)
Enjambment
c)
Conceit
d)
Assonance
e)
Anachronism
13.
“What large, dark hands are those at the window/Grasping in the golden light/Which weaves its way through the evening wind/At my heart’s delight?”
a)
Invective
b)
Enjambment
c)
Conceit
d)
Assonance
e)
Anachronism
14.
“I dwell in Possibility—/A fairer House than Prose—/More numerous of Windows—/Superior—for Doors—“
a)
Invective
b)
Enjambment
c)
Conceit
d)
Assonance
e)
Anachronism
15.
“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
a)
Invective
b)
Enjambment
c)
Conceit
d)
Assonance
e)
Anachronism
16.
Deductions or conclusions readers make based on information available.
a)
Allusion
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Discourse
d)
Inference
e)
Metonymy
17.
A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
a)
Allusion
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Discourse
d)
Inference
e)
Metonymy
18.
Speech or writing that deals with a certain subject formally.
a)
Allusion
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Discourse
d)
Inference
e)
Metonymy
19.
An indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work.
a)
Allusion
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Discourse
d)
Inference
e)
Metonymy
20.
Certain words, sounds, concepts, or syntactic structures are reversed or repeated in reverse order.
a)
Allusion
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Discourse
d)
Inference
e)
Metonymy
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