Literary Terms Used in College Essays V

4 Written Questions

1. extended fictional prose about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people.
2. something likened to speech as conveying impressions to the mind.
3. formula for justifying the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature.
4. a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.

3 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow.
   1. soliloquy
   2. tragic flaw
   3. stanza
   4. voice
2. an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present.
   1. synecdoche
   2. sonnet
   3. soliloquy
   4. voice
3. an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
   1. sonnet
   2. stanza
   3. voice
   4. speaker

3 True/False Questions

1. villanelle → A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme.

   True        False

2. sonnet → something likened to speech as conveying impressions to the mind.

   True        False

3. synecdoche → a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.

   True        False