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Literary Terms Quiz Test

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of 44 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. neoclassicism
  2. farce
  3. motive
  4. conflict
  5. theme
  1. a age of reason, revival of attitudes and style in classic literature.
  2. b comedy, humor
  3. c clash of purposes, in novel, story, and PLAY.
  4. d reasons for a character acting a certain way.
  5. e underlying idea of a work

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. everything that happens in a story, novel, or play
  2. selection and arrangement of words in a literary work, 4 types
  3. leads to downfall, usually hubris, pride
  4. American philosophical and religious movement, 1835
  5. character duplicated, opposite personalities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

5 True/False Questions

  1. metaphora feeling of sympathetic pity, also the qualities in a literary work that cause such a feeling

          

  2. pathosliterary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness

          

  3. foilattitude of author towards reader

          

  4. allusionnarrative technique that characters represents abstract things, message or lessons

          

  5. protagonistperson who is main character/hero