5 Written Questions

1. see utopia
2. A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play
3. "-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."
4. "Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste."""
5. a type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but literally it is not. In connecting one object event or place to another a _____ can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. _____ language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning.

5 Matching Questions

1. Formalism
2. Comedy
3. Apostrophe
4. Denotation
5. Intertextuality

1. a A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern ______ tend to be funny while Shakespearean _____ simply end well.
2. b _____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.
3. c 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.
4. d The basic dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to its connotative meaning
5. e A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a common theme in Greek tragedies and mythology whose stories often featured protagonists suffering from hubris and subsequently being punished by the gods for it.
   1. Aphorism
   2. Hubris
   3. Genre
   4. Farce
2. 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
   1. Aesthetics
   2. Epithet
   3. Archetype
   4. Anecdote
3. reversal of the normal order of words for dramatic effect
   1. Interpolation
   2. Inversion
   3. Allusion
   4. Idiom
4. "Critical interpretation of a text especially a biblical text; from the Greek ex- + egeisthai meaning ""to lead out."
   1. Epigraph
   2. Epigram
   3. Exegesis
   4. Conceit
5. A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests. For example in a herd of fifty cows the herd might be referred to as fifty head of cattle
   1. Canon
   2. Metonymy
   3. Metaphor
   4. Irony

5 True/False Question

1. Magical Realism → "is an incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect. ""He is the very pineapple of politeness."""
   

   True        False

2. Hyperbole → A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect
   

   True        False

3. Anaphora → a type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but literally it is not. In connecting one object event or place to another a _____ can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. _____ language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning.
   

   True        False

4. Framing Device → A story in which one or more other stories are told. Examples include the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the play at the beginning of the Taming of the Shrew.
   

   True        False

5. Allusion → An indirect or passing reference to some event person place or artistic work the nature and relevance of which is not explained by the writer but relies on the reader’s familiarity with what is thus mentioned.
   

   True        False