Literary Terms: Test! Quiz
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Questions and Answers
- 1.________________is the emotional attitude the author takes towards hir subject.
- A.
Mood
- B.
Tone
- C.
Theme
- D.
Symbol
- 2._______________is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
- A.
Assonance
- B.
Personification
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Onomatopeia
- 3.________________comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be".
- A.
Smile
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Personification
- 4._________________________is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
- A.
Simile
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Alliteration
- D.
Onomatopoeia
- 5.____________________is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Imagery
- C.
Rhythm
- D.
Alliteration
- 6._____________________is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Imagery
- C.
Alliteration
- D.
Onomatopoeia
- 7.___________________is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express.
- A.
Symbol
- B.
Theme
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Meter
- 8.The ______________voice used by an author to tell a story or a poem.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Speaker
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Theme
- 9.When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem, it is called ____________.
- A.
Meter
- B.
Rhythm
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Tone
- 10._____________ is a term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Onomatopoeia
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Rhythm
- 11.A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the writer a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ideas. For example, in Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker refers to the urn as an "unravished bride of quietness." See also the metaphor.
- A.
Alliteration
- B.
Personification
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Onomatopoea
- 12._______________ is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
- A.
Tone
- B.
Symbol
- C.
Imagrey
- D.
Meter
- 13.__________________is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds as in consonance.Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels.
- A.
Onomatopoeia
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Speaker
- 14.___________________is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective. Similar to Mood.
- A.
Alliteration
- B.
Mood
- C.
Simile
- D.
Tone
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