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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses
formal speech
elevated diction
None of these
colloquial diction
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Poetic Justice rewards good characters and...
puts them side by side with the heroes.
Demotes them to cliche
punishes the bad.
raises villains ironically into Mythic status
3
"Her vestal livery is but sick and green," represents _____ in literature
free verse
apostrophe
iambic pentameter
epigrams
4
"Black Humor" is...
Use of disturbing themes in comedy.
Writing that evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy.
name for a section in a long work of poetry.
Broad parody
5
When a literary work teaches its readers a specific lesson or moral it is
bildungeramic
didactic
moralistic
sympathetic
6
Which of the following uses oxymoron?
Clash, slam, pop
Bittersweet, deafening silence, liquid gas
Frightened, scared, terrified
Loud aroma, velvety smile, sweet music
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Which is an example of alliteration?
Dan's dog dove deep.
Mike's Microphone made music.
Jesse's cat sat back.
A and B
8
Why are soliloquies used?
Glimpse into character's thoughts
To view the actions of the characters come to life.
So that actors are distanced from the audience
show outside acting layers of performance
9
What is a subplot?
None of the above.
A type of poem.
Focus of the story
A strand of the main plot that runs parallel & supports it.
10
The description of the monster in Frankenstein is
soliloquy
caricature
allusion
simile
11
What ISN'T an example of an ode?
A Pindar Choral Poem.
A strict piece of poetry without freedom of form.
An irregular rhyme scheme.
A sonnet.
12
One should eat to live, not live to eat. Example of
sestina
motif
antimetabole
metonymy
13
What does elegy signify?
A triumphant ode to the living.
Poetry based in reality.
A lyrical piece of reflection.
A form of conventional writing.
14
Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.
simile
metaphor
symbol
pun
15
What is a definition of "cacophony"?
Words with different sounds whose endings sound alike
Harsh, unpleasand sounds used to convey disorder
A string of words with repeating vowel sounds
Pleasant and melodic sounds that convey pleasure
16
Which phrase has the best example of a euphemism?
a soldier was killed by friendly fire
the man died
she punched him in the face
armies use torture to gain information
17
A word or group of words at the beginning of more than one successive clauses or sentences.
assonance
anaphora
iambic pentameter
cacophony
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syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernable
lyric
assonance
allusion
ode
19
A villanelle is a type of poem best described as
haiku
mixed verse
blank verse
free verse
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Brief story told to illustrate a point
Thesis
Anecdote
Poem
Essay
21
Which of the following is not an onomatopoeia?
Moo
Thump
Hi
Thump
22
Deus Ex Machina is derived from...
Neither
Greek
Latin
Both
23
Which of the following represents ambiguity?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
I rode a horse in flip-flops
Blood hath brought blood.
Mother Nature is a serial killer.
24
Which of the following is an example of synecdoche?
She died laughing
Four falcons fly furiously
All hands on deck
I love to watch movies
25
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes is a
motif
villanelle
paradox
quatrain
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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize.
Ode
Satire
Jargon
Elegy
27
Free Verse is not
form of artistic expression
normal pauses and natural phrases
Focused on artificial constraints
Lacking rhyme or/and meter
28
The statement "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." by Virginia Woolf is
paradox
juxtaposition
epigram
euphemism
29
"A lyric is a fairly __________ poem which is the expression of strong feelings of thoughts"
Long
Detailed
Short
Vague
30
Cadence is derived from a Latin word, "cadentia," that means
a rhythmic pacing
changes in pitch
a rising
a falling
31
Writing on a tombstone in the passage was a
Sestina
Villanelle
Elegy
Epitaph
32
The continuation of the sentence in line 6 is a(n):
Satire
Allusion
Enjambment
Ode
33
Hamlet calling out to Yoric is an example of
anaphora
apostrophe
personification
cacophony
34
Which is not an example of metonymy?
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears."
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Itold my dad I was going to the movie theater?
Let me give you a hand.
35
The words zap, pop, and splash are examples of
euphony
parallelism
onomatopoeia
rhythm
36
Reversal of normal word order in a sentence is
imagery
inversion
litotes
simile
37
The dog ran, stumbled, and fell. It is an example of
Allegory
Connotation
Rhyme
Parellelism
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A poem that does not tell a story but expresses feelings of the reader
Epic
Lyric
Sonnnet
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In Invisible Man, the paint factory, an extended metaphor of black and white, is an example of
anaphora
apostrophe
personifcation
conceit
40
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds is best described as a(n)
cacophony
simile
allegory
metaphor
41
Which of the following exemplifies Jargon?
He was as strong as an ox.
O Captain! My Captain!
The leaves danced in the wind.
I'm calling a Code Eight on Highway 41.
42
The purpose of a dangling modifier is to
adjust a word not clearly stated in a sentence.
Give a phrase a double meaning.
make a phrase ironic.
Ask a rhetorical question.
43
In literature, a utopia is seen as...
a nightmare world hidden beneath perfection.
an lusion alive and "flourishing."
All of these.
a place where social evil is "cured."
44
Caesura is a ____ pause in a poetic line or sentence.
Unnatural
Rhythmical
Fast
none
45
If a writer used realism as a style of writing, it would be
optomistic
none of these
romanticizing
pessimistic
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He is not the brightest bulb.
irony
litote
alliteration
anecdote
