Literary Terms Test 3

Question 0

Lyrical

Answer 0

Expressing the writer’s emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way

Question 1

Mood

Answer 1

A feeling that a pice of lit arouses in the reader

Question 2

Malapropism

Answer 2

A pun, or play on words, that results when 2 or more words become jumbled in the speaker’s mind

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

Figure of speech comparing to things without using like or as

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

Substitution of one word for another that is closely related to it

Question 5

Meter

Answer 5

The patterned rep. of stressed and unstressed syllables in order to establish rhythm. (Feet grouped to form recognizable rhythm)

Question 6

Motif

Answer 6

Often repeated idea or theme in literature

Question 7

Moral

Answer 7

Particular value or lesson that the author is trying to get across to the reader

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

Combination of contradictory terms

Question 9

Inference

Answer 9

To draw a reasonable conclusion from the info presented

Question 10

Invective

Answer 10

direct verbal assault on someone or something: an insult or denunciation, whether witty or not.

Question 11

Inversion

Answer 11

Technique which normal order or words is reversed in order to achieve a certain effect of emphasis or meter
“Where in the world were you?”
“In a hole in the ground, the hobbit lived.”

Question 12

Omniscient POV

Answer 12

Narrator knows everything about all characters

Question 13

Limited Omniscient

Answer 13

Narrator knowledge is limited to one character

Question 14

Objective POV

Answer 14

Writer tells what happened without stating more than can be inferred from the story’s action and dialogue (detached observer)

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative to compare or contrast

Question 16

Local color

Answer 16

The customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character

Question 17

Irony

Answer 17

Words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

Answer 18

Use of word whose sound suggests its meaning

Question 19

In medias res

Answer 19

It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action.

Question 20

Internal rhyme

Answer 20

Metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other (middle rhyme).

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door…..
The Raven- by Edgar Allen Poe

Question 21

Jargon

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Technical diction…specialized language used by specific group

Question 22

Literal

Answer 22

Language means exactly what it appears to mean

Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggerations.

“Your fathers right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…. But sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” - To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Question 23

Litotes

Answer 23

Is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions

She’s not unattractive
You didn’t do too bad