Literary Terms Review

1. Literary Terms Review

2. You've just finished the hardest workout of your entire life, you're moments away from dropping dead from exhaustion, and a friend comes by and sees you sweaty, huffing and puffing, and says, "Tired?" and you answer, "Just a little.” • A. This is a hyperbole • B. This is an understatement • C. This is situational irony • This is a metaphor

3. The witches in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth __________________ the evil events that will follow. • A. Personify • B. Symbolize • C. Narrate • D. Foreshadow

4. Read the following excerpt and determine what literary device is mostly represented • I sat slowly on the swing as he came up and pushed me back and forth. We laughed and told jokes while watching the little children running around. I remembered my childhood, when it used to be my dad pushing me, when it used to be me running uncontrollably. But now I was grown up, swinging on a swing, my husband pushing me, and my children running without reason. • A. Foreshadowing C. Flashback • B. Pun D. Personification

5. Dressy daffodils, rabbits running over roses, and the wild, whistling wind, are all examples of a(n) • A. Hyperbole • B. Irony • C. Alliteration • D. Onomaopoeia

6. A woman is apprehensive about attending a wedding due to being single, she however goes and meets her future husband there. • This is an example of: • A. Pun • B. Metaphor • C. Situational Irony • D. Symbolism

7. Mother comes into the TV room and discovers her 11-year-old watching South Park instead of doing his homework, as he was set to a dozen minutes ago. Pointing to the screen she says, "Don't let me tempt you from your duties, kiddo, but when you're finished with your serious studies there, maybe we could take some time out for recreation and do a little math. • Dad is finally out of patience with picking up after his son, who can't seem to be trained to put his dirty clothes in the hamper instead of letting them drop wherever he happens to be when he takes them off. "Would Milord please let me know when it pleases him to have his humble servant pick up after him?” • These are both examples of: • A. Dramatic Irony • B. Situational Irony • C. Verbal Irony • D. Foreshadowing

8. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is seen taking a potion that temporary makes her appear dead. Later Romeo finds her and kills himself because he believes her to be dead. Finally at the end of the play, Juliet discovers that Romeo has killed himself and takes her own life. • This is an example of • A. Foreshadowing C. Tone • B. Refrain D. Dramatic Irony

9. He was eager to help but his legs were rubber… is an example of: • A. a metaphor • B. a paradox • C. personification • D. tone

10. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, 
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven. 
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore 
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" 
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." 

Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, 
Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore; 
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being 
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door 
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, 
With such name as "Nevermore." 

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only 
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. 
Nothing further then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered 
Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown before 
On the morrow will he leave me, as my hopes have flown before." 
Then the bird said, "Nevermore." • The use of the word “nevermore” at the end of each stanza is an example of: • A. Repetition B. Refrain • C. Personification D. Understatement

11. Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded. If you get this message, call me; if you don't, then don't worry about it. If a person says about himself that he always lies, is that that the truth or a lie??? • The above sentences are all examples of: • A. Onomatopoeias • B. Similes • C. Understatements • D. Paradoxes

12. Knock-knock Who's there?
Boo
Boowho?
Don't cry, I was only joking • This is an example of • A. A flashback • B. A hyperbole • C. Irony • D. An onomatopoeia

13. “The run down house appeared depressed” and “The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow” are both examples of... • A. Flashbacks • B. Personification • C. Irony • D. Alliterations

14. "The rain falls like the sun,
rising upon the mountains.” • The above quote is an example of • A. a simile • B. a metaphor • C. depressed tone • D. personification

15. Hear the sledges with the bells -Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells – From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells • In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Bells,” The author sees multiple examples of • A. Repetition C. Tone • B. Simile D. Understatement

16. Part I: Read the following quotations from literature, and decide on the best tone word in the set of options. • “I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw.”--Homer, The Odyssey • A) Threatening B) Amused C) Proud • D) Unsatisfied

17. “There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the children, only with the children. They were the children of the village where I lived, a whole gang of them who went to the local school. I was simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not want anything else.”--Dostoyevsky, The Idiot • How does the speaker feel about/toward the subject? • A) Amused B) Reflective • C) Reverent D) Remorseful

18. The color red for 'warning', 'desire, sin, guilt, pain, passion, and blood. These are all examples of: • A. Understatements • B. Similes • C. Symbolism • D. Foreshadowing

19. “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” and “He’s so dumb that if breathing weren’t natural he’d be dead” are both examples of • A. hyperbole • B. Irony • C. Metaphor • D. Repetition