WorksheetsWeek #17 Literary/rhetorical vocabulary quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
antecedent
a)
a word in a sentence which another word refers to.
b)
Married to my Uncle Cedent.
c)
an adjective in a sentence that comes after a verb.
d)
a verb phrase that appears at the beginning of a dramtaic play.
2.
epic (in poetic terms)
a)
a short poem consisting of two stanzas with a rhyming couplet at the end.
b)
a long poem usually about a false deity that prays upon humankind full of grim metaphors.
c)
a short poem consisting of three stanzas of two unrhymed lines per stanza.
d)
a long poem written about a hero who is elevated to mythic proportions.
3.
limited narrator (in literature)
a)
third person point of view where the narrator recounts the story through a single character.
b)
first person piint of view where the narrator inhabits the mind of many characters.
c)
a narrow minded person with minimal vision telling stories.
d)
second person point of view where the narrator tells the story through a deceased character.
4.
rhetorical device
a)
techniques used by authors to show agony and defeat.
b)
techniques of parables that are used as propaganda.
c)
techniques of literature that are used to persuade.
d)
techniques that have no answer.
5.
sentimentalism (in literature)
a)
works of literature that play convincingly on the personalities of the audience.
b)
In a rom com when they live "happily ever after".
c)
works of literature that play unconvincingly on the emotions of the audience.
d)
works of literature that are from the post modernist era that deal with chivalry and nobility.
6.
meiosis
a)
deliberate understatement usually for comic effect
b)
cell division in bacterium resulting in twelve cells
c)
deliberate overstatement usually for dramatic effect.
d)
deliberate statemets that rally an audience for a cause.
7.
litotes
a)
a type of overstatement that involves making a negative point about a positive statement.
b)
large bags used to carry groceries, shoes, or houshold objects.
c)
a type of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by negating its opposite.
d)
a type of oversimplification of the facts that employs comic timing and rhyming couplets.
8.
structural irony
a)
when an architect designs a building and everyone knows how he is going to build it.
b)
a work that has a discrepency throughout the entire work; e.g an unreliable narrator.
c)
a work that has a tragic flaw throughout and and alwasy end in death and despair.
d)
a work that has disproportionate amount of adjectives, nouns, and verbs, to seem verbose and trite.
9.
free verse (in poetic terms)
a)
poetry that lacks a regular rhythm, and uses very long rhymed ending words.
b)
poetry that lacks a regular meter, doesn't rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths.
c)
a hit song made popular in the 1970s by Lynard Skynard.
d)
poetry that lacks form, funtion, and regular stanzas.
10.
continuous form
a)
a long s-shaped curve used as a template for freeways in America.
b)
in poetry lines are divided by theme, mood, or not at all and continue into each other without division.
c)
in poetry lines are divided by distinct stanzas with rhythm and meter.
d)
in poetry lines are unrhymed and grouped according to meter and rhythm.
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