5 Written Questions

1. 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. thoughts of a single person directed outward.

5 Matching Questions

1. Malapropism
2. Asyndeton
3. Irony
4. In Media Res
5. Catharsis

1. a The omission of a conjunction from a list ('chips beans peas vinegar salt pepper')
2. b in or into the middle of a sequence of events as in a literary narrative
3. c "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."
4. d "is an incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect. ""He is the very pineapple of politeness."""
5. e 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.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A type of comedy based on a humorous situation such as a bank robber who mistakenly wanders into a police station to hide. It is the situation here which provides the humor not the cleverness of plot or lines
   1. Farce
   2. Aside
   3. Genre
   4. Canon
2. a villain who has a particular interest in defeating a hero or group of heroes and who is often of particular interest to the hero(es) in return.
   1. Exegesis
   2. Nemesis
   3. Comedy
   4. Aphorism
3. The emotional implications and associations that words may carry as distinguished from their denotative meanings
   1. Connotation
   2. Inversion
   3. Denotation
   4. Canon
4. A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect
   1. Parable
   2. Anecdote
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Farce
5. _____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.
   1. Ambiguity
   2. Inversion
   3. Intertextuality
   4. Pathetic Fallacy

5 True/False Question

1. Climax → The decisive moment in a drama the ______ is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. This is the crucial part of the drama the part which determines the outcome of the conflict.
   

   True        False

2. 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

3. Metaphor → "-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"
   

   True        False

4. Metonymy → 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
   

   True        False

5. Aphorism → "A brief statement which expresses an observation on life usually intended as a wise observation. Benjamin Franklin's ""Poor Richard's Almanac"" contains numerous examples one of which is Drive thy business; let it not drive thee."
   

   True        False