Sky View MS Literary TerMS
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Multiple choice definitions for literary terms.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What literary term means "the amount of emphasis given to a syllable, which determines the rhythm in a poem"?
- A.
Types
- B.
Genre
- C.
Stress
- D.
Fable
- 2.What literary term means "the time and place of the action in a story"?
- A.
Exposition
- B.
Plot
- C.
Personification
- D.
Setting
- 3.What literary term means "an over-exaggeration used to make a point"? Ex: My backpack weighs a ton!
- A.
Personification
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Euphemism
- D.
Epiphany
- 4.What lit. term means "the struggle between two opposing forces"?
- A.
Conflict
- B.
Proverb
- C.
Crisis
- D.
Hubris
- 5.What lit term means "a figure of speech where something is written about as if it were something else"? Ex: Margot was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away.
- A.
Hyperbole
- B.
Personification
- C.
Simlie
- D.
Metaphor
- 6.What lit. term means "when the opposite of what is expected happens, happens"? Ex: The fire house catches on fire.
- A.
Drama
- B.
Climax
- C.
Irony
- D.
Epiphany
- 7.What lit. term means "the main character in a literary work"?
- A.
Foil character
- B.
Antagonist
- C.
Protagonist
- D.
Exposition
- 8.What lit. term means "a comparison between two unlike things using the words like, as, or than"? Ex: He's bigger than a house.
- A.
Comparison
- B.
Idiom
- C.
Metaphor
- D.
Simile
- 9.What lit. term means "events leading to the climax"?
- A.
Coherence
- B.
Denouement
- C.
Rising action
- D.
Exposition
- 10.What lit. term means "a traditional Japanese three-line poem using 5 syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third"?
- A.
Ballad
- B.
Haiku
- C.
Stanza
- D.
Sonnet
- 11.What lit. term means "an overused expression such as time is money or flat as a pancake. These phrases begin as vivd, original expressions but become uninteresting because of their overuse"?
- A.
Analogy
- B.
Cliche
- C.
Idiom
- D.
Acronym
- 12.What lit. term means "the feeling a reader gets when they read a story. It's created by the author using images, dialogue, and setting"?
- A.
Prose
- B.
Theme
- C.
Tone
- D.
Mood
- 13.What lit. term means "the time of the action, the main characters, and the basic situation are introduced in this part of the plot"?
- A.
Theme
- B.
Setting
- C.
Exposition
- D.
Moral
- 14.What lit. term means "when one or more lines repeats in a poem or song"?
- A.
Limerick
- B.
Refrain
- C.
Iambic pentameter
- D.
Free verse
- 15.What lit. term means "the emotional thoughts/associations we have about a word"? Ex: The word strange has negative emotional associations; the word unique had negative ones.
- A.
Connotation
- B.
Denotation
- C.
Analogy
- D.
Anecdote
- 16.What lit. term "makes a play on words using the double meaning of the words"? Ex: The Suite Life of Zach and Cody plays on the words suite and sweet.
- A.
Idiom
- B.
Irony
- C.
Juxtapose
- D.
Pun
- 17.What lit. term means "the central underlying message the author tries to get across; it makes a statement about how people react with each other in life--a statement about the human condition"?
- A.
Mood
- B.
Tone
- C.
Moral
- D.
Theme
- 18.What lit. term means "the pattern of rhyming lines used in a poem represented by letters (using the last word of each line)"?
- A.
Stress
- B.
Meter
- C.
Rhyme scheme
- D.
Assonance
- 19.What lit. term means "the attitude a writer has toward his/her subject. It might be funny, angry, sarcastic, bitter, etc"?
- A.
Mood
- B.
Tone
- C.
Moral
- D.
Theme
- 20.What lit. term means "a point of view where the narrator is part of the action and uses the pronoun I and we"?
- A.
First person
- B.
Subjective
- C.
Second person
- D.
Third limited
- 21.What lit. term means "a story about a person's life written by that person"?
- A.
Biography
- B.
Autobiography
- C.
Allusion
- D.
Essay
- 22.What lit. term means "the basic dictionary meaning of a word"?
- A.
Idiom
- B.
Explicit meaning
- C.
Connotation
- D.
Denotation
- 23.What lit. term means "anything that appears/mentioned repeatedly in a literary work"?
- A.
Motif
- B.
Pattern
- C.
Symbol
- D.
Foreshadow
- 24.What lit. term means "using two contradictory words together"?
- A.
Union
- B.
Pun
- C.
Oxymoron
- D.
Conflict words
- 25.What lit. term means "events leading to the resolution"?
- A.
Raising action
- B.
Falling action
- C.
Denouement
- D.
Resolution
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