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A230 Literature Exam Preparation Quiz

Question 1 of 14

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What is an aside?

Select one of the following:

  • Where a character makes a remark that the audience can hear but no other characters can.

  • Where a character speaks their thoughts or emotions aloud alone onstage.

  • The opening lines of a scene.

Explanation

Question 2 of 14

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What is blank verse?

Select one of the following:

  • Lines with no metre or rhythmical pattern.

  • Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.

  • Another name for prose.

Explanation

Question 3 of 14

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What is denouement?

Select one of the following:

  • The opposing force to a narrative's protagonist.

  • The final resolution of a play, novel or other narrative.

  • The beginning of a play where characters or information is introduced.

Explanation

Question 4 of 14

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What is dramatic irony?

Select one of the following:

  • Where an audience or reader has information that a character is ignorant of.

  • When a character very obviously means the exact opposite to what they say.

  • When a play makes a reference to the real world outside the story.

Explanation

Question 5 of 14

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What is exposition?

Select one of the following:

  • The opening section of a play where characters are introduced and essential information is imparted to the audience.

  • The event or character that the whole of the plot depends upon.

  • The final section of a play or other narrative where all the plot points are resolved.

Explanation

Question 6 of 14

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What is hyperbole?

Select one of the following:

  • When a text foreshadows a future event.

  • Extravagant overstatement.

  • The last speech of a dying character in a drama.

Explanation

Question 7 of 14

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What is proleptic irony?

Select one of the following:

  • When the audience has information that characters are ignorant of.

  • The foreshadowing of an event that will occur later in a play or other text.

  • When characters misunderstand each other and cause negative consequences.

Explanation

Question 8 of 14

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What is a register?

Select one of the following:

  • The list of characters at the start of a published play text.

  • The type or style of language/vocabulary associated with a specific context.

  • The overall metrical pattern of a poem.

Explanation

Question 9 of 14

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What is a soliloquy?

Select one of the following:

  • The two rhyming lines at the end of a scene in a play text.

  • A scene in a play where two characters converse in a back and forth dialogue.

  • A speech by a character alone onstage where he/she gives voice to emotions or thoughts.

Explanation

Question 10 of 14

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What is verbal irony?

Select one of the following:

  • The sarcastic tone of voice used by an actor in a play or film.

  • Where the actual meaning of a text is different to the apparent meaning.

  • When a text foreshadows future events.

Explanation

Question 11 of 14

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What is a focaliser?

Select one of the following:

  • The character through whose perspective or perceptions the narrative is described.

  • Phrases such as 'he said' or 'Daniel whispered' that signal who has spoken in a prose text.

  • The audience or reader of a literary text.

Explanation

Question 12 of 14

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What is non-diegetic sound?

Select one of the following:

  • Repeated vowel sounds across a section of literary text.

  • The sound effects of a film. For example: doors shutting, background people talking etc.

  • Sound that is external to the story world of a film.

Explanation

Question 13 of 14

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What is mise-en-scène?

Select one of the following:

  • The filmed events of a film such as costume, set design or character movement.

  • A genre of French poetry.

  • When the weather/climate of a literary text reflects the mood of a character.

Explanation

Question 14 of 14

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What is diegetic sound?

Select one of the following:

  • Sound that is external to the story world of a film.

  • Sound that is inside the story world of a film.

  • The way iambic pentameter sounds when spoken out loud.

Explanation