Test: Literature Terms - 20 Questions
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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Homeric Simile
- Blank verse
- Diary
- Autobiography
- Tragic Flaw
- a noble characters speak it unless they go crazy or lose their rank
- b story about self
- c comparison between something unfamiliar to something more familiar (Hermes is like the bird on the water)
- d day-to-day record of events
- e a positive characteristic or trait that the character embodies but it usually leads to a downfall when taken to an extreme
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- —"It refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible
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- a reference in literature to another important person, place, or event
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- 14 lines of iambic pentameter with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme
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- a type of contradiction that combines two terms ordinarily seen as opposites
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- play on words (grave man)
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5 True/False Question
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Tragedy → type of drama that shows the downfall of a noble or outstanding character, one who traditionally possesses a tragic flaw
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Urban Legend → type of drama that shows the downfall of a noble or outstanding character, one who traditionally possesses a tragic flaw
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Euphemism → comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as (Juliet is hott like the sun)
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Iambic Pentameter → comparison between something unfamiliar to something more familiar (Hermes is like the bird on the water)
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Prose → unrhymed, unpatterned speech. Working class characters speak in it, unless pretending to be noble
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