WorksheetsQuiz 7
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A rhetorical figure that juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to represent an emphatic and dramatic paradox.
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Polysyndeton
d)
Synecdoche
e)
Verisimilitude
2.
A sudden revelatory experience, or spiritual manifestation, of a character in a story.
a)
Epiphany
b)
Antagonist
c)
Caesura
d)
Denotation
e)
Form
3.
A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, images, or characters are placed side by side in order to provide a comparison or contrast.
a)
Juxtaposition
b)
Oxymoron
c)
Polysyndeton
d)
Synecdoche
e)
Verisimilitude
4.
The appearance or semblance of truth; believability.
a)
Verisimilitude
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
5.
Either the general type, genre, or the unique structure of a literary work.
a)
Form
b)
Antagonist
c)
Caesura
d)
Denotation
e)
Epiphany
6.
A pause in a line of poetry indicated by natural speaking rhythm.
a)
Caesura
b)
Antagonist
c)
Denotation
d)
Epiphany
e)
Form
7.
The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
a)
Polysyndeton
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Synecdoche
e)
Verisimilitude
8.
The character pitted against the protagonist in a literary work.
a)
Antagonist
b)
Caesura
c)
Denotation
d)
Epiphany
e)
Form
9.
A word’s literal meaning, independent of any emotional associations evoked by the word.
a)
Denotation
b)
Antagonist
c)
Caesura
d)
Epiphany
e)
Form
10.
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part.
a)
Synechdoche
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Verisimilitude
11.
“I said, ‘Who killed him?’ and he said, ‘I don’t know who killed him, but he’s dead all right,’ and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water" (Ernest Hemingway, After the Storm).
a)
Caesura
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
12.
"When glided in Porphyria; straight / She shut the cold out and the storm, / And kneeled and made the cheerless grate / Blaze up, and all the cottage warm" (Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover").
a)
Caesura
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
13.
The narrator in Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical novel Night (1958), interned in Nazi concentration camps where his is terribly underfed and overworked, speaks of himself as “a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach.”
a)
Caesura
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
14.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities).
a)
Caesura
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
15.
“The term Jumbo Shrimp has always amazed me. What is a Jumbo Shrimp? I mean, it’s like Military Intelligence—the words don’t go together, man” (George Carlin).
a)
Caesura
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Polysyndeton
e)
Synecdoche
16.
An indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work
a)
allusion
b)
ambiguity
c)
anachronism
d)
anaphora
e)
asyndeton
17.
Lack of clarity or uncertainty in meaning.
a)
allusion
b)
ambiguity
c)
anachronism
d)
anaphora
e)
asyndeton
18.
A rhetorical figure involving the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
a)
allusion
b)
ambiguity
c)
anachronism
d)
anaphora
e)
asyndeton
19.
Something outside of its proper historical time period.
a)
allusion
b)
ambiguity
c)
anachronism
d)
anaphora
e)
asyndeton
20.
A rhetorical figure involving the deliberate omission of conjunctions to create a concise, terse, and often memorable statement.
a)
allusion
b)
ambiguity
c)
anachronism
d)
anaphora
e)
asyndeton
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