5 Written Questions

1. attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification)
2. a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times...."
3. An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected.
4. a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
5. a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.

5 Matching Questions

1. POINT OF VIEW
2. DIALECT
3. EPANALEPSIS
4. PARABLE
5. SYNTACTIC PERMUTATION

1. a the vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
2. b a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life.
3. c a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
4. d device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common."
5. e Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument.
   1. ALLITERATION
   2. DESCRIPTION
   3. CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP
   4. CHARACTERIZATION
2. act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language.
   1. EXPLICATION
   2. EXPOSITION
   3. ALLUSION
   4. DESCRIPTION
3. a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind.
   1. VERBAL IRONY
   2. LOCAL COLOR
   3. INVERSION
   4. INTERNAL CONFLICT
4. a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject.
   1. ELEGY
   2. KOAN
   3. UNITY
   4. ESSAY
5. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
   1. DEAD METAPHOR
   2. MOTIF
   3. METAPHOR
   4. METONYMY

5 True/False Question

1. PARADOX → a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
   

   True        False

2. APPOSITION → Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first(often set off by a colon). Paine: "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
   

   True        False

3. HUBRIS → brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram.
   

   True        False

4. EXTENDED METAPHOR → is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas."
   

   True        False

5. ARGUMENTATION → one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.
   

   True        False