EH1-Unit1 Test

Question 1

Language used to appeal to the five sense (touch, taste, smell,
hearing,sight)

Answer 1

Imagery

Question 2

When a tangible thing (object, person, place) is used to represent
something intangible

Answer 2

Symbol

Question 3

How the author develops characters by describing him or her

physically, mentally, emotionally, and gives them their personalities

Answer 3

Characterization

Question 4

Extreme exaggeration to add meaning

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

action The process the story follows as it builds to its main conflict

Answer 5

Rising action

Question 6

Location and time which the literary work takes place

Answer 6

Setting

Question 7

The repetition of the 1st consonant sound of the words

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

The author’s attitude toward the subject of the literary work

Answer 8

Tone

Question 9

In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect

Answer 9

Anaphora

Question 10

The good guy in a story

Answer 10

Protagonists

Question 11

The bad guy in a story

Answer 11

Antagonist

Question 12

a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole,
or it may use a whole to represent a part

Answer 12

Synecdoche

Question 13

The type or category to which a literary work belongs

Answer 13

Genere

Question 14

Reader is given background information about the setting, characters,
and relationships in order to better understand the plot of the literary
work

Answer 14

Exposition

Question 15

The main idea or underlying meaning explored by a literary work

Answer 15

Theme

Question 16

Returning to an earlier point in the story to make the present easier to
understand

Answer 16

Flashback

Question 17

A reference to something well-known that exists outside of the
literary work

Answer 17

Allusion

Question 18

Any person, animal, or object that plays a role within a literary work

Answer 18

Character

Question 19

Words whose actual sound imitates its meaning

Answer 19

Onomatopoeia

Question 20

Using hints within the reading to show what is to come in the literary
work

Answer 20

Foreshadowing

Question 21

A phrase that consists of two words that have opposite meanings

Answer 21

Oxymoron

Question 22

When something unexpected happens, different events than what was
predicted

Answer 22

Irony

Question 23

Giving non-human objects human characteristics

Answer 23

Personification

Question 24

The problem that occurs between two characters in a literary work

Answer 24

Conflict

Question 25

Speaking between characters in a literary work

Answer 25

Dialogue

Question 26

A direct comparison of two different things

Answer 26

Metaphor

Question 27

Word choice used to create a specific effect in a literary work

Answer 27

Diction

Question 28

Part in a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are
answered

Answer 28

Resolution

Question 29

an intentional use of understatement that renders an ironic effect

Answer 29

Litotes

Question 30

The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or line

Answer 30

Assonance

Question 31

the word we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that
particular thing, but is not a part of it

Answer 31

Metonymy

Question 32

The part in a literary work at which the conflict comes to its highest
point

Answer 32

Climax

Question 33

A comparison of two different things using “like” or

“as”

Answer 33

Simily

Question 34

repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase

Answer 34

Consonance

Question 35

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not
deducible from those of the individual words

Answer 35

Idiom

Question 36

The perspective the literary work is told

Answer 36

Point of view