LA9 Basic Terms

5 Written Questions

1. a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.
2. situations of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
3. An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: She's said so on several million occasions
4. A secondary course of conflicts in a novel or play.
5. Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words. It is used to create melody, establish mood, call attention to important words, and point out similarities and contrasts. Example: wide-eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken.

5 Matching Questions

1. Complication
2. Diction
3. External Conflict
4. Metaphor
5. Verbal Irony

1. a style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words:
2. b a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
3. c in literature, a struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or some outside force
4. d A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is not announced by like or as. Example: The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
5. e something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change, etc

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author's attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. The climate of feeling in a literary work. Some possible attitudes are pessimism, optimism, earnestness, seriousness, bitterness, humorous, and joyful. The choice of setting, objects, details, and images. For example, an author may create a mood of mystery around a character or setting but may treat that character or setting in an ironic, serious, or humorous
   1. Tone and Mood
   2. Foreshadow
   3. Metaphor
   4. Theme or Motif
2. A major idea that has to be understood or is implied within the text.
   1. Theme or Motif
   2. Alliteration
   3. Complication
   4. Implicit Theme or Motif
3. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
   1. Plot
   2. Subplot
   3. Symbol
   4. Dialog
4. A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well. Things, characters and actions can be symbols. Anything that suggests a meaning beyond the obvious.
   Some are conventional, generally meaning the same thing to all readers.
   For example: bright sunshine symbolizes goodness and water is a symbolic cleanser.
   1. Symbol
   2. Simile
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Static
5. Any story told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we": "he did that, they did something else." In other words, the voice of the telling appears to be akin to that of the author him- or herself. This is perhaps the most common sort of narration and was particularly popular with the nineteenth-century realist novel.
   1. 3rd Person Omniscient
   2. First Person Narrator
   3. 3rd Person Narrator
   4. 3rd Person Narrator - Limited

5 True/False Questions

1. Protagonist → the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

   True        False

2. Situational Irony → an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does

   True        False

3. Antagonist → a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.

   True        False

4. Static → a literary character who remains basically unchanged throughout a work

   True        False

5. Onomatopoeia → the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

   True        False