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Lit Terms 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the term for a concept or value that cannot be seen and is often compared to something concrete by writers?

a)

Allegory

b)

Abstraction

c)

Alliteration

d)

Analogy

2.

What do we call one of the main divisions of a play or opera?

a)

Act

b)

Scene

c)

Chapter

d)

Verse

3.

Which literary device involves characters, objects, or actions representing abstractions, creating a story within a story?

a)

Allusion

b)

Allegory

c)

Anagram

d)

Analogy

4.

What is the repetition of a beginning consonant sound called?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Anaphora

c)

Analogy

d)

Ambiguity

5.

What is a reference to something outside of the specific text, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical, called?

a)

Allusion

b)

Allegory

c)

Anachronism

d)

Anagram

6.

Which term describes a word, phrase, or statement that contains more than one meaning?

a)

Analogy

b)

Ambiguity

c)

Anaphora

d)

Alliteration

7.

What is the term for a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially something old-fashioned?

a)

Anachronism

b)

Allegory

c)

Allusion

d)

Analogy

8.

What do you call a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Anagram

c)

Alliteration

d)

Analogy

9.

Which literary device is a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way?

a)

Analogy

b)

Allegory

c)

Allusion

d)

Anachronism

10.

What is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences called?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Anaphora

c)

Analogy

d)

Ambiguity

11.

Which term refers to a literary work where there is a story within the story, often with symbolic characters and events?

a)

Allegory

b)

Allusion

c)

Anachronism

d)

Anagram

12.

If a writer repeats the same consonant sound at the start of several words in a sentence, which device are they using?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Anaphora

c)

Analogy

d)

Ambiguity

13.

Which term best describes a reference to a famous historical event in a novel?

a)

Allusion

b)

Anagram

c)

Analogy

d)

Act

14.

What is it called when a phrase can be interpreted in more than one way?

a)

Ambiguity

b)

Anaphora

c)

Allegory

d)

Analogy

15.

Which word means a comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation or clarification?

a)

Analogy

b)

Anagram

c)

Alliteration

d)

Anachronism

16.

What is the main division of a play called?

a)

Act

b)

Scene

c)

Chapter

d)

Verse

17.

Which device involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Alliteration

c)

Analogy

d)

Ambiguity

18.

What is the Greek word meaning “backward time” that refers to something out of its proper historical period?

a)

Anachronism

b)

Allegory

c)

Allusion

d)

Anagram

19.

Which term describes a concept or value that cannot be seen, often contrasted with something concrete?

a)

Abstraction

b)

Allegory

c)

Alliteration

d)

Analogy

20.

What is the term for rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to create a new word or phrase?

a)

Anagram

b)

Anaphora

c)

Alliteration

d)

Analogy