6 Written Questions

1. _____ in a literary works oaf the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur.
2. ____ is the description or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, or movement.
3. ______ is a line of poetry with five iambic feet, each containing one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. _________ may be rhymed or unrhymed. Unrhymed _______ is called blank verse.
   
   Ex. "The Author to Her Book"
4. _____ is poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter. A writer of ______ is that liberty to use any rhythm that are appropriate to what he or she is saying. ______- has been widely used by twentieth-century poets.
   
   Ex. Leslie Marmon Silko, who begins "Where Mountain Lion Lay Down With Deer" with these lines: I climb the black rock mountain, stepping from day to day, silently
5. ______ is the body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and other works arising out of the oral traditions of peoples around the globe. The ______ traditions of the United States, including those of Native Americans and of the American pioneers, are especially rich.
6. A _____ is a character who provides a contrast to another character.
   
   Ex. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" (p.744), Irene Scheerer is a _____ for the tantalizing Judy Jones

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. _____ is a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, other used to comic effect.
   
   Ex. In Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (p. 569), the claim that Jim Smiley would follow a bug as as a far as Mexico to win a bet is hyperbole.
   1. Image
   2. Idyll
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Genre
2. A character who is one-dimensional.
   1. Folk Literature
   2. Free Verse
   3. Flat Character
   4. Flashback
3. The _____ , which occurred during the 1920s, was a time of African American artistic creativity centered in Harlem, New York City. Writers of the ________ include Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Langston Hughes.
   1. Harlem Renaissance
   2. Hyperbole
   3. Flashback
   4. Free Verse
4. A ____ is a division, or type, of a literature: Literature is commonly divided into three major ______: poetry, prose, and drama. Each major
   ______ can in turn be divided into smaller _______. Poetry can be divided into lyric, concrete, dramatic, narrative, and epic poetry. Prose can be divided into fiction and nonfiction. Drama can be divided into serious drama, tragedy, comic, drama, melodrama, and farce.
   1. Idyll
   2. Foot
   3. Genre
   4. Image
5. A _____ is a section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate an event from an earlier time, A writer may present a _____ as a character's memory or recollection, as part of an account or story told by a character, as a dream or a daydream, or simply by having the narrator switch to a time in the past.
   1. Gothic
   2. Flashback
   3. Imagism
   4. Imagery
6. ______ refers to the use of bizarre, absurd, and fantastic, elements in literature. The ____ _______ is generally characterized by distortions or striking incongruities.
   
   Ex. ____ characters, like those in Flannery O'Connor's "THe Life You Save May Be Your Own" (p. 972), are characters who have become bizarre though their obsession with an idea or a value or a result of an emotional problem
   1. Gothic
   2. Genre
   3. Foot
   4. Grotesque

6 True/False Questions

1. Idyll → an ____ is a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the fives senses----sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.

   True        False

2. Imagism → _____ was a literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927. Led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. the Imagist poets rejected nineteenth-century poetic forms and language. Instead, they wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to createsharp, exact, concentrated pictures
   
   Ex. Pound's Poetry (p. 732) provides examples of ____

   True        False

3. Image → an ____ is a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the fives senses----sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.

   True        False

4. Foot → Weak and strong stresses divided by vertical lines.

   True        False

5. Gothic → A _____ is a character who provides a contrast to another character.
   
   Ex. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" (p.744), Irene Scheerer is a _____ for the tantalizing Judy Jones

   True        False

6. Figure of Speech → A _____ is an expression or a word used imaginatively rather than literally.

   True        False