Literary terms

5 Written Questions

1. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
2. passing reference to another literary work or historical event/person
3. a novel about an artist's growth to maturity.
4. Genre of writing which describes visual art
5. authors deliberately chosen words

5 Matching Questions

1. allegory
2. synecdoche
3. antagonist
4. assonance
5. mood

1. a using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels")
2. b someone who offers opposition
3. c narrative in which everything stands for something else
4. d the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
5. e the feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
   1. metonymy
   2. irony
   3. tone
   4. mood
2. using words that imitate the sound they denote
   1. apostrophe
   2. onomatopoeia
   3. antagonist
   4. metonymy
3. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
   1. epiphany
   2. mood
   3. metonymy
   4. metaphor
4. the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
   1. irony
   2. mood
   3. satire
   4. tone
5. the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
   1. consonance
   2. tone
   3. assonance
   4. satire

5 True/False Questions

1. simile → witty language used to convey insults or scorn

   True        False

2. apostrophe → a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent.

   True        False

3. metonymy → incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

   True        False

4. epiphany → a revelation; sudden knowledge or insight

   True        False

5. symbol → something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible

   True        False