Sample Mulitple Choice

Question 1

What literary device is this: “You have dancing shoes

With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead”?

Answer 1

Pun

Question 2

What literary device is this: “Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word”?

Answer 2

Allusion

Question 3

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”?

Answer 3

Verbal irony

Question 4

When Friar Lawrence says something that Paris doesn’t hear, it is an example of:

Answer 4

Aside

Question 5

What is iambic pentameter?

Answer 5

Five metrical feet/ten syllables, alternating unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, etc.

Question 6

What literary device is this: “green leaves are accelerating”?
I COULDN’T REMEMBER THIS ONE COMPLETELY

Answer 6

Assonance

Question 7

What literary device is this: “the gentle chill of the breeze”?

Answer 7

Tactile imagery

Question 8

What literary device is this: whish, buzz?

Answer 8

Onomatopoeia

Question 9

What literary device is this: “the buzz saw leaped”?

Answer 9

Personification

Question 10

What is a comparison using like or as?

Answer 10

Simile

Question 11

What literary device compares actuality to appearance?

Answer 11

Irony

Question 12

What is the overall message of a story?

Answer 12

Theme

Question 13

What is two lines usually joined in rhyme that often go at the end of sonnets?

Answer 13

Couplet

Question 14

What are the six types of imagery?

Answer 14

Tactile (touch)
Kinetic (movement)
Olfactory (smell)
Gustatory (taste)
Auditory (hearing)
Visual (sight)

Question 15

What literary device is when the author embeds hints in a story to imply that something will happen later?

Answer 15

Foreshadowing

Question 16

What is the opposition/struggle in a story?

Answer 16

Conflict

Question 17

What is personification?

Answer 17

Giving a non-human object human qualities

Question 18

What is hyperbole?

Answer 18

Exaggeration for effect

Question 19

What is connotation?

Answer 19

The feelings associated with a word, what light it is usually thought of in (negative connotation)

Question 20

What word is Reuven called that has a negative connotation to him?

Answer 20

Aporkism

Question 21

What does Danny decide to do at the end of the story?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is Reuven’s greatest achievement/the thing he is most proud of doing?

Answer 22

Interpreting the passage of the Talmud that no one else could

Question 23

What motif best represents appearance vs. reality in The Chosen?

Answer 23

I WASN’T SURE ABOUT THIS ONE, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S EYES/SIGHT

Question 24

What is the main stress of Danny and Reuven’s friendship?

Answer 24

Their fathers’ different views on Zionism (Danny’s father is a passionate anti-Zionist, Reuven’s father is a passionate Zionist)

Question 25

Why is Rev Gershenson’s name not in the catalogue in the library?

Answer 25

If he published his controversial ideas and teachings he wouldn’t be allowed to teach at the school