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Literary Glossary - Bradley Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. character
  2. in medias res
  3. satire
  4. innocent or naive narrator
  5. static character
  1. a story begins in the middle of things with little exposition
  2. b same at the beginning as at the end
  3. c persons involved in a story; the moral qualities and traits of a character
  4. d story told from the point of view of a narrator who does not fully understand the implications of the story; narrator could be a child or adult with the intellect of a child
  5. e literature which pokes fun at human folly with the intention of changing things or preventing future ills

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. deliberately represents something as less than it is for the purposes of ironic contrast
  2. overstatement for the purpose of emphasis
  3. indications or hints of things to come
  4. protagonist of a story, usually possessing qualities of bravery, skill, idealism, or sense of purpose
  5. fiction of grim realism, in which the writer observes human characters like a scientist observing ants, seeing them as the products and victims or environment and heredity

5 True/False Questions

  1. antagonista kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality

          

  2. limited omnisciencea way of saying something other than the ordinary way; an imaginative comparison

          

  3. Allusionnarrative or description which has a second meaning beneath the surface one

          

  4. verbal ironya figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

          

  5. Allegorya reference to something in previous history or literature