FREE LIBRARY MEDIA AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE LIBRARY MEDIA AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

LITERARY TERMS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Asking a question that you do not intended to be answered.

• Could you guys please stop talking?

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Rhetorical Question Question 2: Is literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events. Often flashbacks are presented as a memory of the narrator or of another character.

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Flashback Question 3: Is the greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in plot of a narrative. The Climax typically comes at the turning point in a story or drama.

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Climax

Question 4: An expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect.

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Cliché Question 5: Is the repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words. Alliteration gives emphasis to words.

Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Alliteration Question 6: Is a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force on nature, or an idea is given human qualities or characteristics.

Example: tears began to fall from the dark clouds.

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Personification

Question 7: A play on words

• She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.

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Pun

Question 8: An extreme exaggeration.

• For example "Dan's the funniest guy on the planet!"
• "That baseball card is worth a zillion dollars."

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Hyperbole Question 9: IS the part of the plot that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is introduced. The rising action adds complications to the conflict and increases reader insert.

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Rising Action Question 10: Affects the mood. Is the reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work.

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Tone

Question 11: Is the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggestion the outcome of the conflict.

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Resolution Question 12: A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

• Shows sarcasm on the part of the writer/speaker
• Can show tone.

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Understatement

Question 13: Direction exposition- what is said about the character.

Indirect

• Characters thoughts
• Characters actions

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Characterization Question 14: Is a figure of speech that is a combination of seemingly contradictory words.Examples: open secret, almost exactly, minor crisis, unbiased opinion, living dead, seriously funny, virtual reality, genuine imitation, rolling stop, jumbo shrimp.

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Oxymoron Question 15: Exist within the mind of a character who is torn between different courses of action.Man vs. Himself

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Internal Conflict Question 16: Exist when a character struggles against some outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or fate.Man vs, Society Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature Man vs. Paranormal

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External Conflict

Question 17: Situational

• When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens.

Verbal

• When you say the opposite of what you mean (related to sarcasm and being facetious)

Dramatic

• When the audience knows something that the characters on stage don't know.

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Irony Question 18: The relationship of similarity between two or more entities or a partial similarity on which a comparison is based. An example is the classic analogy between the heart and a pump.

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Analogy

Question 19: A seeming contradiction. For example.

• "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

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Paradox Question 20: Is another figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things. Simile's Do use LIKE and AS.

Example: her voice was like nails on a chalk board.

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Simile Question 21: The use of one thing to represent another. Often the thing that representing intangible (touchable/physical) and the thing being represents in an idea, For example, a dove is a symbol of peace.

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Symbolism

Question 22: Is the distinctive way in which an author uses language.

Word choice, phrasing, sentence length, tone, dialogue, purpose, and attitude toward the audience and subject can be all contribute to an author's writing style.

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Style