5 Written Questions

1. "Critical interpretation of a text especially a biblical text; from the Greek ex- + egeisthai meaning ""to lead out."
2. _____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. -A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects when the things are otherwise entirely different.
4. 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. 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

5 Matching Questions

1. Allusion
2. Asyndeton
3. Hyperbole
4. Archetype
5. Deus Ex Machina

1. a 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
2. b The omission of a conjunction from a list ('chips beans peas vinegar salt pepper')
3. c "An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery."
4. d A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect
5. e 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.

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. Chiasmus
   2. Idiom
   3. Climax
   4. Catharsis
2. 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.
   1. Farce
   2. Irony
   3. Idiom
   4. Canon
3. the repetition of words phrases sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea. Restatement is repetition of an entire idea in different words. Structuralism Parallelism is the repetition of a word or entire sentence pattern. Antithesis is connecting ideas that are opposite rather than similar.
   1. Malapropism
   2. Parallelism
   3. Parable
   4. Magical Realism
4. 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. Nemesis
   2. Homily
   3. Gothic
   4. Hubris
5. A far-fetched simile or metaphor a literary _____occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.
   1. Comedy
   2. Farce
   3. Conceit
   4. Gothic

5 True/False Question

1. Catharsis → "Meaning ""purgation"" _____ describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy. In his Poetics Aristotle discusses the importance of ______. The audience faces the misfortunes of the protagonist which elicit pity and compassion. Simultaneously the audience also confronts the failure of the protagonist thus receiving a frightening reminder of human limitations and frailties."
   

   True        False

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

   True        False

3. Colloquialism → spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   

   True        False

4. Metaphor → 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

5. Homily → An inspirational saying or platitude.
   

   True        False