5 Written Questions

1. A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern ______ tend to be funny while Shakespearean _____ simply end well.
2. The art of persuasive argument through writing or speech--the art of eloquence and charismatic language.
3. A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work.
4. 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. A far-fetched simile or metaphor a literary _____occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.

5 Matching Questions

1. Roman a Clef
2. Antagonist
3. Apostrophe
4. Persona
5. Intertextuality

1. a A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman
2. b the character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story
3. c In literature the is the narrator or the storyteller of a literary work created by the author. As Literature: An Introduction to Fiction Poetry and Drama puts it the persona is not the author but the author’s creation--the voice “through which the author speaks.”
4. d _____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.
5. e a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. "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. Analogy
   2. Allusion
   3. Allegory
   4. Anaphora
2. the central character of a literary work
   1. Antagonist
   2. Malapropism
   3. Pastoral
   4. Protagonist
3. 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.
   1. Formalism
   2. Homily
   3. Minimalism
   4. Nemesis
4. 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. Polemic
   2. Exegesis
   3. Realism
   4. Nemesis
5. Of relating to or being a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life usually in an idealized way.
   1. Persona
   2. Pastoral
   3. Parable
   4. Rhetoric

5 True/False Question

1. Oxymoron → 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

2. Magical Realism → " a literary technique where the disbelief of the reader and writer produces a momentary shift in the real world wherein an element of the surreal enters and leaves with ease."""
   

   True        False

3. Realism → 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.
   

   True        False

4. Dystopia → see utopia
   

   True        False

5. Parallelism → 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.
   

   True        False