5 Written Questions

1. the collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere mood tension. For example images of crowded steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it.
2. in or into the middle of a sequence of events as in a literary narrative
3. reversal of the normal order of words for dramatic effect
4. The basic dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to its connotative meaning
5. 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 Matching Questions

1. Epigram
2. Intertextuality
3. Intentional Fallacy
4. Anecdote
5. Hyperbole

1. a _____is thus a way of accounting for the role of literary and extra-literary materials without recourse to traditional notions of authorship. A literary work then is not simply the product of a single author but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself.
2. b assuming from the text what the author intended to mean
3. c 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.
4. d "-A very short tale told by a character in a literary work. In Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" ""The Miller's Tale"" and ""The Carpenter's Tale"" are examples."
5. e A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. -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
   1. Allegory
   2. Imagery
   3. Epigraph
   4. Ambiguity
2. "-repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences. ""We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France"
   1. Anti-hero
   2. Anaphora
   3. Analogy
   4. Metaphor
3. "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."""
   1. Allusion
   2. Allegory
   3. Imagery
   4. Analogy
4. "Critical interpretation of a text especially a biblical text; from the Greek ex- + egeisthai meaning ""to lead out."
   1. Conceit
   2. Epigraph
   3. Imagery
   4. Exegesis
5. A device that depends on the existence of at least two separate and contrasting levels of meaning embedded in one message. Verbal irony is sarcasm when the speaker says something other than what they really mean. In dramatic irony the audience is more aware than the characters in a work. Situational irony occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens. This type of irony often emphasizes that people are caught in forces beyond their comprehension and control.
   1. Idiom
   2. Farce
   3. Irony
   4. Canon

5 True/False Question

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

   True        False

2. Connotation → The basic dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to its connotative meaning
   

   True        False

3. Genre → a Greek word that implies rule or law and is used in literature as the source which regulates which selection of authors or works would be considered important pieces of literature.
   

   True        False

4. Archetype → a term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader. In literature characters images and themes that symbolically embody universal meanings and basic human experiences
   

   True        False

5. Chiasmus → 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.
   

   True        False