5 Written Questions

1. a writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations running through a character's mind
2. a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true
3. repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea
4. a writer's or speaker's choice of words
5. a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself

5 Matching Questions

1. satire
2. onomatopoeia
3. stanza
4. epic
5. kenning

1. a a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
2. b the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
3. c long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
4. d a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
5. e in Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
   1. conceit
   2. conflict
   3. couplet
   4. plot
2. a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject
   1. epic
   2. irony
   3. ode
   4. plot
3. poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost
   1. allegory
   2. elegy
   3. plot
   4. comedy
4. repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another
   1. allusion
   2. diction
   3. denotation
   4. alliteration
5. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles
   1. epiphany
   2. metaphor
   3. paradox
   4. memoir

5 True/False Questions

1. soliloquy → a long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings

   True        False

2. oxymoron → a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself

   True        False

3. allusion → a story in which the characters, setting, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts

   True        False

4. protagonist → character or force that opposes or blocks the protagonist, or main character, in a narrative

   True        False

5. point of view → the vantage point from which a writer tells a story

   True        False