5 Written Questions

1. a fictitious name used by an author to hide identity; also called pen name
2. the main thought expressed by a work; meaning of the work as a whole
3. language characteristics involving pronunciation
4. the basic dictionary definition of a word
5. an outlandish physical comedy

5 Matching Questions

1. antagonist
2. prompt
3. omniscient point of view
4. episodic novel
5. fiction

1. a the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses; free to describe the thoughts of any character, skip about in time or place, or speak directly to the reader
2. b the person, idea, force, or general set of circumstances opposing the protagonist
3. c in writing, the cue, suggestion, or reminder given to the student as instruction for the content of an essay.
4. d a narrative composed of loosely connected incidents, each one more or less self-contained, often connected by a central character or characters
5. e narratives based in the imagination of the author; one of three major genres of literature

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the management of language for a specific effect such as in sonnets when Shakespeare spends the first nine lines describing the speaker's discontent, then three lines describing the happiness...
   1. Petrarchan sonnet
   2. rhetorical techniques
   3. caesura
   4. rhetorical strategy
2. referring to a type of novel, 18th century, using mystery, suspense, and sensational and supernatural occurrences to evoke terror
   1. plot
   2. gothic
   3. loose
   4. poetry
3. the main character of a literary work
   1. protagonist
   2. romanticism
   3. prompt
   4. antagonist
4. an extended narrative in prose or verse (poetry) in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities; (many connected metaphors); writer intends a second meaning beneath the surface story; may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric
   1. allusion
   2. allegory
   3. caesura
   4. oxymoron
5. the use of an "I" speaker or narrator who tells about things that s/he has seen, done, spoken, heard, thought
   1. omniscient point of view
   2. first person point of view
   3. second person narration
   4. objective point of view

5 True/False Questions

1. speaker → a fourteen line lyric poem in iambic pentameter

   True        False

2. loose → term for a sentence in which the main point is put at the beginning

   True        False

3. limited omniscient → a third person narration in which the speaker or narrator, with no apparent limitations, may describe intentions, actions, reactions, locations, and speeches of any or all of the characters, and may also describe their innermost thoughts

   True        False

4. slant rhyme → repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding consonants at the conclusion of a line

   True        False

5. omniscient → a third person narration in which the speaker or narrator, with no apparent limitations, may describe intentions, actions, reactions, locations, and speeches of any or all of the characters, and may also describe their innermost thoughts

   True        False