Sample Mulitple Choice Flashcards
What literary device is this: “You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead”?
Pun
What literary device is this: “Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word”?
Allusion
What literary device is this: “Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him—dead—
Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed”?
Verbal irony
When Friar Lawrence says something that Paris doesn’t hear, it is an example of:
Aside
What is iambic pentameter?
Five metrical feet/ten syllables, alternating unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, etc.
What literary device is this: “green leaves are accelerating”?
I COULDN’T REMEMBER THIS ONE COMPLETELY
Assonance
What literary device is this: “the gentle chill of the breeze”?
Tactile imagery
What literary device is this: whish, buzz?
Onomatopoeia
What literary device is this: “the buzz saw leaped”?
Personification
What is a comparison using like or as?
Simile
What literary device compares actuality to appearance?
Irony
What is the overall message of a story?
Theme
What is two lines usually joined in rhyme that often go at the end of sonnets?
Couplet
What are the six types of imagery?
Tactile (touch) Kinetic (movement) Olfactory (smell) Gustatory (taste) Auditory (hearing) Visual (sight)
What literary device is when the author embeds hints in a story to imply that something will happen later?
Foreshadowing
What is the opposition/struggle in a story?
Conflict
What is personification?
Giving a non-human object human qualities
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration for effect
What is connotation?
The feelings associated with a word, what light it is usually thought of in (negative connotation)
What word is Reuven called that has a negative connotation to him?
Aporkism
What does Danny decide to do at the end of the story?
Go to Columbia to study psychology, cut off his earlocks and shave his beard, and stop being a Hasidic Jew and not become a rabbi/tzaddik
What is Reuven’s greatest achievement/the thing he is most proud of doing?
Interpreting the passage of the Talmud that no one else could
What motif best represents appearance vs. reality in The Chosen?
I WASN’T SURE ABOUT THIS ONE, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S EYES/SIGHT
What is the main stress of Danny and Reuven’s friendship?
Their fathers’ different views on Zionism (Danny’s father is a passionate anti-Zionist, Reuven’s father is a passionate Zionist)
