WorksheetsWeek #7 literary and rhetorical vocab.quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Antagonist
a)
The angry neighbor that lives next door.
b)
The character pitted against the protagonist of a work.
c)
The character petrified by another main character.
d)
The character pitted against the foil of a work.
2.
Caesura
a)
A pause in a line of poetry dictated by natural speaking rhythm.
b)
A pause in a line of prose dictated by natural speaking rhythm.
c)
A really good salad with parmesian cheese and croutons.
d)
A pause in a song allowing for breath.
3.
Epiphany
a)
A sudden burst of color in an otherwise drab world.
b)
A sudden poetic discourse occuring between stanzas.
c)
A sudden revolting experience, or a work where nothing occurs.
d)
A sudden revelatory experience, or a work in which such an experience occurs.
4.
Form
a)
Unique structure of a literary work, the categories according to which literary works are commonly classified
b)
The particular sub-categories of quntum physics.
c)
What a tennis player has or doesn't have.
d)
The common structure of work that makes it the same or similar.
5.
Juxtaposition
a)
Two or more ideas, places, or characters, placed side by side in a literary work for the purpose of developing contrasts
b)
Two or more ideas, thoughts, or dreams, placed far from each other to create unity.
c)
Two or more characters placed near each other to simulate balance.
d)
Two or more ideas, thoughts, or characters, placed one on top the other.
6.
Oxymoron
a)
a figure skater that wants to win the Olympics.
b)
a figure of speech in which like terms are given sympathetic feelings.
c)
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
d)
a figure of speech in which apparently similar terms appear together.
7.
Polysyndeton
a)
The use of a number of contractions in close progression.
b)
The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
c)
The use of a number of consonants in close proximity.
d)
The use of a number of contaminates.
8.
Synechdote
a)
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
b)
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent an antedote.
c)
A figure of speech in which a whole is made to represent part of a metonomy.
d)
a figure of speech in which wholes are made into donuts.
9.
Verisimilitude
a)
The appearance or semblance of a spiritual or godlike presence.
b)
The appearance of a military presence.
c)
The appearance or semblance of truth, likeliehood, probability.
d)
The appearance of semblance of lies, dishonesty, improbability.
10.
Denotation
a)
The associations of a word.
b)
The illiterate meaning of a word.
c)
The literal meaning of a word.
d)
The opposite of the word.
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