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Key Literary Terms Quiz
Key Literary Terms Quiz
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Some basic literary terms including literary criticisms.
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Literary criticism (lens) that focuses on how men and women interact.
Psychoanalytical
New
Feminist
Social/Marxist
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Literary criticism (lens) that focuses on motives and desires of the character or author.
Paradigm
Psychoanalytical
Social
Reader Response
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Which is NOT an example of an archetype for women?
Wise Old Woman
Virgin
Femme Fatale
Sidekick
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What do we call the sequence of events in a story?
Motif
Exposition
Plot
Foreshadowing
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If the protagonist changes, that makes them what?
Flat
Static
Dynamic
A Metaphor
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A reference to something famous from history, literature, pop culture, etc...
A Foil
An Illusion
An Allusion
A Motif
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When the opposite of the expected result occurs and it is darkly humorous or poetically just...
Hyperbole
Irony
Satire
Juxtaposition
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Which is NOT a type of indirect characterization?
Adjectives
Appearance
Reaction of Others
Dialogue
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3rd Person Objective Point of View means what?
Like a 1st person shooter (inside one head)
Like a camera (just observing)
Inside everyone's head
Inside no one's head
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Literary Criticism (lens) that focuses on how the reader creates meaning.
Archetypal
Reader Response
New
Psychoanalytical
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Placing two things side by side to show the contrast between them.
Juxtaposition
Simile
Hyperbole
Antithesis
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What do we call a secondary story or sequence of events?
Subplot
Internal Conflict
Back Story
Arc Two
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Literary criticism (lens) that focuses on authorial intent and theme.
Reader
Social
New
Feminist
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Which is the beginning of the plot line?
Denouement
Exposition
Climax
Rising Action
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The person you are rooting for is called the...
Foil
Protagonist
Antagonist
Archetype
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Which is NOT a cliche?
"You got dumped"
"FAIL"
"You broke up?"
"You got curved"
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A type of character, symbol, or situation that "arches" or repeats throughout literature...
An Allusion
An Archetype
Juxtaposition
A Motif
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Literary Criticism (lens) that focuses on money and power.
Archetypal
New
Reader Response
Social/Marxist
19
Word choice and sentence arrangement that suggests an attitude is called...
Static
Motif
Tone
Indirect Chracterization
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What type of conflict will best help you to uncover the theme of a story?
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Himself
Man vs. Nature
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Which is NOT a symbol?
Flag
Black Cat
Wedding Ring
Love
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Literary criticism (lens) that focuses on patterns of characters, symbols, and situations.
Social/Marxist
Paradigm
New
Archetypal
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Exaggeration for emphasis.
Satire
Hyperbole
Allusion
Simile
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Characters that highlight qualities of the protagonist by being similar are called...
Juxtaposition
Shadows
Parallel
Foil
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When we don't know much about a character, we say the character is...
Flat
Static
An Archetype
Dynamic
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Which Yo Mama joke is an example of understatement? "Yo mamma is...
...so skinny, she dodged raindrops.
...so ugly she weeps thinking "no one will love me"
...so fat she jumped up and got stuck
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When the author hints at what is coming, we call this what?
Allusion
A Metaphor
A Subplot
Foreshadowing
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Attacking a problem with humor: "Hahaha...oooooh!"
Motif
Satire
Indirect Characterization
Irony
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A recurring symbol such as sight in "Cathedral" or snow in "Powder" is called what?
A Motif
A Metaphor
An Allusion
A Symbol
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Untrustworthy point of view in "Adams" and "The Cask of Amontillado" (they speak using "I").
First Person Unreliable
Second Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited Omniscient
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A comparison that takes an abstract idea (love) and makes it concrete (is a red rose).
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Antithesis
