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5 Written Questions

1. A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern ______ tend to be funny while Shakespearean _____ simply end well.
2. A serious play in which the chief figures by some peculiarity of character pass through a series of misfortunes leading to a final devastating catastrophe.
3. a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
4. A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part as wheels for automobile or society for high society.
5. ______ which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th century favored feeling over reason and placed great emphasis on the subjective or personal experience of the individual. Nature was also a major theme.

5 Matching Questions

1. Motif
2. Realism
3. Malapropism
4. Epithet
5. Persona

1. a A recurrent image word phrase represented object or action that tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme
2. b "is an incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect. ""He is the very pineapple of politeness."""
3. c "Broadly defined as ""the faithful representation of reality"" or ""verisimilitude"" _____is a literary technique practiced by many schools of writing. Although strictly speaking realism is a technique it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter especially the representation of middle-class life."
4. d In literature a word of phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character. For example in the Iliad: Zeus-loved Achilles
5. e In literature the is the narrator or the storyteller of a literary work created by the author. As Literature: An Introduction to Fiction Poetry and Drama puts it the persona is not the author but the author’s creation--the voice “through which the author speaks.”

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A term from classical rhetoric that describes a situation in which you introduce subjects in the order A B and C and then talk about them in the order C B and A.
   1. Climax
   2. Idiom
   3. Canon
   4. Chiasmus
2. the character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story
   1. Aphorism
   2. Antagonist
   3. Naturalism
   4. Protagonist
3. A literary _____ is a recognizable and established category of written work employing such common conventions as will prevent readers or audiences from mistaking it [with] another kind
   1. Farce
   2. Theme
   3. Aside
   4. Genre
4. The omission of a conjunction from a list ('chips beans peas vinegar salt pepper')
   1. Vignette
   2. Allusion
   3. Scansion
   4. Asyndeton
5. a literary form in which the style of an author or particular work is mocked in its style for the sake of comic effect
   1. Parody
   2. Farce
   3. Irony
   4. Parable

5 True/False Question

1. Homily → A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern ______ tend to be funny while Shakespearean _____ simply end well.
   

   True        False

2. Epigraph → A pithy sometimes satiric couplet or quatrain which was popular in classic Latin literature and in European and English literature of the Renaissance and the neo-Classical era.
   

   True        False

3. Minimalism → strict observance of the established rules traditions and methods employed in the arts. _____ can also refer to the theory of art that relies heavily on the organization of forms in a work rather than on the content.
   

   True        False

4. Climax → The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical structure.
   

   True        False

5. Naturalism → The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism which focuses on literary technique naturalism implies a philosophical position
   

   True        False