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Literary Terms Part 4-6

Question 1 of 31

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A kind o rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination

Select one of the following:

  • Poetry

  • Speaker

  • Stanza

Explanation

Question 2 of 31

1

the voice talking in a poem.

Select one of the following:

  • Refrain

  • Speaker

  • Stanza

Explanation

Question 3 of 31

1

group of lines forming a unit in a poem.

Select one of the following:

  • Poetry

  • Stanza

  • Rhyme

Explanation

Question 4 of 31

1

the general mood or feeling established in a piece of literature

Select one of the following:

  • Atmosphere

  • Mood

  • Tone

Explanation

Question 5 of 31

1

emotional atmosphere produced b an artistic work (how the reader feels)

Select one of the following:

  • Tone

  • Irony

  • Mood

Explanation

Question 6 of 31

1

attitude of the author toward a piece of literature (how the author feels)

Select one of the following:

  • tone

  • suspense

  • inference

Explanation

Question 7 of 31

1

the uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in a story.

Select one of the following:

  • tone

  • suspense

  • inference

Explanation

Question 8 of 31

1

a reasonable conclusion made about something based on certain clues or facts.

Select one of the following:

  • tone

  • suspense

  • inference

Explanation

Question 9 of 31

1

an interruption of the sequence of a narrative to relate an action that happened at an earlier point in time.

Select one of the following:

  • flashback

  • foreshadow

  • dialogue

Explanation

Question 10 of 31

1

the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come.

Select one of the following:

  • flashback

  • foreshadow

  • dialogue

Explanation

Question 11 of 31

1

talk or conversation between two or more characters.

Select one of the following:

  • flashback

  • foreshadow

  • dialogue

Explanation

Question 12 of 31

1

a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social group.

Select one of the following:

  • allusion

  • irony

  • dialect

Explanation

Question 13 of 31

1

a contrast between expectation and reality.

Select one of the following:

  • allusion

  • irony

  • dialect

Explanation

Question 14 of 31

1

references to a work of literature or to an actual event, person, or place which the speaker expects the audience to recognize.

Select one of the following:

  • allusion

  • irony

  • dialect

Explanation

Question 15 of 31

1

a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech.

Select one of the following:

  • rhythm

  • rhyme

  • refrain

Explanation

Question 16 of 31

1

a repetition of accented vowel sound and all sounds following them in words close together.

Select one of the following:

  • rhyme

  • rhythm

  • refrain

Explanation

Question 17 of 31

1

a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.

Select one of the following:

  • rhyme

  • rhythm

  • refrain

Explanation

Question 18 of 31

1

words or phrases that describe something in a way that creates pictures, or images that appeal to the reader's senses.

Select one of the following:

  • imagery

  • symbol

  • connotation

Explanation

Question 19 of 31

1

something that stands for or represents something else.

Select one of the following:

  • imagery

  • symbol

  • connotation

Explanation

Question 20 of 31

1

all of the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses.

Select one of the following:

  • imagery

  • symbol

  • connotation

Explanation

Question 21 of 31

1

specific or literal meaning of a work or phrase (dictionary definition).

Select one of the following:

  • oxymoron

  • alliteration

  • denotation

Explanation

Question 22 of 31

1

the repetition of a sound in a group of words.

Select one of the following:

  • denotation

  • alliteration

  • oxymoron

Explanation

Question 23 of 31

1

when two opposite words are put together.

Select one of the following:

  • denotation

  • alliteration

  • oxymoron

Explanation

Question 24 of 31

1

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.

Select one of the following:

  • Connotation

  • Figure of Speech

Explanation

Question 25 of 31

1

the use of words whose sound in some degree imitates or suggest it's meaning.

Select one of the following:

  • Rhyme

  • Symbol

  • Oxymoron

  • Onomatopoeia

Explanation

Question 26 of 31

1

a figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities

Select one of the following:

  • Hyperbole

  • Personification

Explanation

Question 27 of 31

1

A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.

Select one of the following:

  • Hyperbole

  • Personification

Explanation

Question 28 of 31

1

A play on words that have the some or similar sounds but different meanings.

Select one of the following:

  • Idiom

  • Bentley's Jokes

  • Simile

  • Pun

  • Metaphor

Explanation

Question 29 of 31

1

an expression that is illogical and means something other than its literal statement.

Select one of the following:

  • anything that comes out of mom's mouth.

  • Maygan's singing

  • Idiom

Explanation

Question 30 of 31

1

an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.

Select one of the following:

  • Tyler and Tvli

  • Marbury vs. Madison

  • Metaphor

  • Simile

Explanation

Question 31 of 31

1

a comparison between tow unlike things, using a word such as like or as.

Select one of the following:

  • Any middle/high school girl you talk to.

  • Dad

  • metaphor

  • simile

Explanation

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