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5 Written Questions

1. see utopia
2. A combination of contradictory terms like compassionate conservative.
3. 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.
4. "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."
5. A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman

5 Matching Questions

1. Imagery
2. Aesthetics
3. Catharsis
4. Metaphor
5. Framing Device

1. a "Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste."""
2. b 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.
3. c 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.
4. d the collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere mood tension. For example images of crowded steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it.
5. e "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."

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; gothic novels include Frankenstein
   1. Epithet
   2. Homily
   3. Gothic
   4. Hubris
2. A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work.
   1. Epigram
   2. Epigraph
   3. Exegesis
   4. Epithet
3. thoughts of a single person directed outward.
   1. Analogy
   2. Anecdote
   3. Romance
   4. Monologue
4. A literary _____ is a recognizable and established category of written work employing such common conventions as will prevent readers or audiences from mistaking it [with] another kind
   1. Farce
   2. Canon
   3. Aside
   4. Genre
5. a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
   1. Roman a Clef
   2. Romance
   3. Point of View
   4. Parable

5 True/False Question

1. Intentional Fallacy → assuming from the text what the author intended to mean
   

   True        False

2. Ambiguity → the collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere mood tension. For example images of crowded steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it.
   

   True        False

3. 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

4. Diction → An author's choice of words. Since words have specific meanings and since one's choice of words can affect feelings a writer's choice of words can have great impact in a literary work.
   

   True        False

5. Malapropism → "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