5 Written Questions

1. "is an incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect. ""He is the very pineapple of politeness."""
2. "a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader it is the “vantage point” from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader. In the omniscient point of view the person telling the story or narrator knows everything that's going on in the story. In the first- person point of view the narrator is a character in the story. Using the pronoun ""I"" the anrrator tells us his or her own experiences but cannot reveal with certainty any other character's private thoughts. In the limited third-person point of view the narrator is outside the story- like an omniscient narrator- but tells the story from the vantage point of one character."
3. A controversial argument especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
4. reversal of the normal order of words for dramatic effect
5. the central character of a literary work

5 Matching Questions

1. Conceit
2. Minimalism
3. Denotation
4. Ambiguity
5. Litotes

1. a a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement: common examples are no mean feat and not averse to a drink. This figure is not uncommon in all kinds of writing.
2. b The basic dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to its connotative meaning
3. c -A statement which can contain two or more meanings. For example when the oracle at Delphi told Croesus that if he waged war on Cyrus he would destroy a great empire Croesus thought the oracle meant his enemy's empire. In fact the empire Croesus destro
4. d a style of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental geometric form and presented in an impersonal manner. In literature _____ use short descriptions and simple sentences.
5. e A far-fetched simile or metaphor a literary _____occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. An inspirational saying or platitude.
   1. Homily
   2. Comedy
   3. Gothic
   4. Aside
2. a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. [A character who] may be bewildered ineffectual deluded or merely pathetic.
   1. Satire
   2. Anti-hero
   3. Anaphora
   4. Aside
3. A specialized vocabulary used by a group of people; jargon or A style or manner of expression peculiar to a given people
   1. Voice
   2. Epigram
   3. Idiom
   4. Aside
4. a ____ is an imaginary and indefinitely remote place of ideal perfection especially in laws government and social conditions. A ______ is an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives; an imaginary place or state where everything is as bad as it possibly can be: or a description of such a place.
   1. Pastoral
   2. Apostrophe
   3. Utopia/Dystopia
   4. Dystopia
5. A combination of contradictory terms like compassionate conservative.
   1. Asyndeton
   2. Rhetoric
   3. Pastoral
   4. Oxymoron

5 True/False Question

1. Tragedy → 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.
   

   True        False

2. Didactic → "A work ""designed to impart information advice or some doctrine of morality or philosophy."""
   

   True        False

3. Monologue → -A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects when the things are otherwise entirely different.
   

   True        False

4. Allegory → "A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. In written narrative _____ involves a continuous parallel between two (or more) levels of meaning in a story so that its persons and events correspond to their equivalents in a system of ideas or a chain of events external to the tale."""
   

   True        False

5. Motif → A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice of social wrongs.
   

   True        False