WorksheetsWeek 17 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Poetry in which words are not broken into rhythmic stanzas.
a)
Continuous Form
b)
Antecedent
c)
Epic
d)
Free Verse
e)
Limited Narrator
2.
Meiosis and litotes.
a)
Understatement
b)
Parable
c)
Rhetorical Devices
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
3.
Poetry that lacks a regular meter, does not rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths.
a)
Free Verse
b)
Antecedent
c)
Continuous Form
d)
Epic
e)
Limited Narrator
4.
The noun or noun phrase that a pronoun refers to.
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous Form
c)
Epic
d)
Free Verse
e)
Limited Narrator
5.
A short, realistic, but usually fictional story told to illustrate a moral or religious point or lesson.
a)
Parable
b)
Rhetorical Devices
c)
Sentimentalism
d)
Structural Irony
e)
Understatement
6.
Works that play on the audience's emotions.
a)
Sentimentalism
b)
Parable
c)
Rhetorical Devices
d)
Structural Irony
e)
Understatement
7.
A long narrative poem written in elevated style that recounts the adventures of a hero of almost mythic proportions.
a)
Epic
b)
Antecedent
c)
Continuous Form
d)
Free Verse
e)
Limited Narrator
8.
Works that contain an internal feature that creates incongruencies, inviting the reader to question appearances.
a)
Structural Irony
b)
Parable
c)
Rhetorical Devices
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Understatement
9.
Third-person point of view, usually from the perspective of a single character.
a)
Limited Narrator
b)
Antecedent
c)
Continuous Form
d)
Epic
e)
Free Verse
10.
Writing strategies used to persuade the audience or reader.
a)
Rhetorical Devices
b)
Parable
c)
Sentimentalism
d)
Structural Irony
e)
Understatement
11.
It is impossible to describe the scene, as, with tears and sobs, they gathered round the little creature, and took from her hands what seemed to them a last mark of her love. They fell on their knees; they sobbed, and prayed, and kissed the hem of her garment; and the elder ones poured forth words of endearment, mingled in prayers and blessings, after the manner of their susceptible race" (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin).
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous form
c)
Free verse
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
12.
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, / And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, / I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring” (Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”).
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous form
c)
Free verse
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
13.
The word “essay” in this example: "A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out" (Virginia Woolf).
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous form
c)
Free verse
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
14.
Readers of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (1729) quickly recognize that its narrator--an economist who advocates a bizarre solution to Ireland's poverty, overpopulation, and starvation--is fallible.
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous form
c)
Free verse
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
15.
“To be, or not to be: that is the question: / Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them?” (William Shakespeare, Hamlet).
a)
Antecedent
b)
Continuous form
c)
Free verse
d)
Sentimentalism
e)
Structural Irony
16.
A phrase, line, or lines that recur(s) throughout a poem or song.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Implication
d)
Refrain
e)
Verisimilitude
17.
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Implication
d)
Refrain
e)
Verisimilitude
18.
The appearance or semblance of truth; believability.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Implication
d)
Refrain
e)
Verisimilitude
19.
A suggestion an author makes without stating it directly.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Implication
d)
Refrain
e)
Verisimilitude
20.
A rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Implication
d)
Refrain
e)
Verisimilitude
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