LIT TERM TRIVIA!!

1. LIT TERM TRIVIA!!

2. Jordan’s artistic talent is like that of a cluster of color-blind hedgehogs in a bag. Is an example of a(n)… • Simile • Metaphor • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia Answer: A) Simile- A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared with the use of “like” or “as”

3. Jordan always is a clownBut yet he still makes me frown • Rhyme scheme • Epigram • Couplet • Sonnet Answer: C) Couplet- a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

4. The Definition of Doggerel is: • A dog made of a certain type of chocolate • Acomposition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem. • A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed. • This is not a Lit term Answer: C

5. An Example of Doggerel is… • “To Banbury I came, O profane one!Where I saw a Puritane-oneHanging of his cat on MondayFor killing of a mouse on Sunday.”

6. A literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight. Is the definition of: • A poem • Epiphany • Elegy • Run on sentence Answer: B) An epiphany

7. An example of epiphany… • I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell;I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. • You have been mine before, -How long ago I may not know:But just when at that swallow's soarYour neck turned so,Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

8. A found poem is… • A long lost poem that has been found on the ice planet of Hoth. • The introduction early in a poem of verbal and dramatic hints on what is going to happen. • A brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. • A composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem. Answer: D

9. Example of a found poem: "And hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” - William Whewell’s "Elementary Treatise on Mechanics"

10. A succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. Is the definition of… • A limerick • Free Verse • An Epic • Verse Answer: D) Verse

11. An example of verse is… • I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

12. Enjambment is defined as… • One who talks a lot • The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. • repeated utterance; reiteration • Has no definition Answer: B) Enjambment-The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

13. An example of enjambment is… • Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove

14. When Obi Wan says, “ Why do I get the feeling you will be the death of me?” to Anakin This is an example of… • A fantastic display of use of the force • Diction • Flash back • Foreshadowing Answer: D) Foreshadowing- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure

15. “I always come to school… *cough*” says Jordan is an example of… • Complete and utter BS • Sarcasm • Satire • This is so ridiculous that I’m not even going to answer this question Answer: B) Sarcasm- a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark We also would have accepted A

16. The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. Is the definition of… • Verse • Stanza • Prose • Chorus Answer: C) Prose- the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.

17. An example of prose is… • Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its favorite words, which are breath. Or handwriting: the long tail of the ‘y’ disappearing into a barn like a rodent’s, and suddenly it is winter after all. After all what? After the ponds dry up in mid-August and the children drop pins down each canyon and listen for an echo

18. Diction’s definition is… • Word choice that conveys a specific purpose or meaning • repeated utterance; reiteration • Rhymes with Jordan never comes to school… • the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. Answer: A)Diction- word choice that conveys a specific purpose or meaning

19. Red fishblue fish Yellow fish Is An Example of…Jordan fish • Stanza • Verse • Repetition • Chorus Answer: C) Repetition-repeated utterance; reiteration

20. The Orcs of Mordor begin to march towards the white city of Minas Tirith. Is an example of… • The exciting part • The Two Towers • Falling action • Rising Action Answer: D) Rising Action is a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

21. A short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical. Is the definition of… • Diction • Anecdote • Journal entry • Stanza Answer: B) Anecdote

22. An example of anecdote is… • Mr. Gladstone's fluency in argumentation, although a natural gift, was purposely fostered by his father: indeed, all the family were accustomed to argue about everything that turned up at table or elsewhere. On one occasion William Gladstone and his sister Mary disputed as to where a certain picture was to be hung. An old Scotch sen-ant came in with a ladder and stood irresolute while the argument progressed ; but as Miss Mary would not yield, William gallantly ceased from speech, though unconvinced of course. The servant then hung up the picture where the young lady ordered; but when he had done this he crossed the room and hammered a nail into the opposite wall. lie was asked why he did this:"Aweel, Miss, that'll do to hang the picture on when ye'll have come roond to Master Willie's opeenion.

23. Tragedies usually end with a ___, allowing the audience to relieve emotional tensions, like in Romeo and Juliet. • Catharsis • Enjambment • Epiphany • Doggerel Answer: A. Catharsis is the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.

24. At the end of a story to say what happens after. A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought. A crazy new dance craze in Europe. A three line poem that rhymes. An epigram is… Answer is B

25. An example of an epigram is: Both robb’d of air, we both lie in one ground Both whom one fire had burnt, one water had drowned

26. A stanza is… • A burger at McDonalds that has three 2 pound patties 12 slices of cheese, and for buns two krispykreme donuts. • A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought. • an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. • a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. Answer: C

27. An example of a stanza is: You could be sitting now in a carrel Turning some liver-spotted page Or rising in an elevator-cage Towards ladies Apparel

28. “From the molten golden notes, and an in tune, what a liquid ditty floats” is an example of • Alliteration • Consonance • Hyperbole • Assonance Answer D: A rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words

29. A motif is… • Something used for or regarded as representing something else • A famous painting by the color blind hedgehog Jordan Shelton. • The release of negative emotions • Arecurring subject, theme, or idea Answer D

30. A motif in Hamlet is incest, a subject that is repeatedly alluded to in the play

31. “He tapped his feetto the rhythm of the beat”is an example of • Assonance • End Rhyme • Alliteration • Parallel Structure Answer: B End rhyme is the rhyming of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry

32. Narrative Hook is… • A literary device used at the beginning of a story to engage the reader • A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark • A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. • The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. Answer: A

33. At the start of the seventh Harry Potter book J.K. Rowling begins by saying: “ The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other’s chests.” This is an example of a narrative hook

34. The ___ of the Harry Potter series is Hogwarts • Theme • Verse • Foreshadowing • Setting Answer: D. Setting is the locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place

35. “She strode quickly and confidently through the square” is an example of • Couplet • Epigram • Parallel Structure • Rising Action Answer: C. Parallel structure is use of the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance

36. In Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged death-like sleep, he assumes her to be dead and kills himself. Upon awakening to find her dead lover beside her, Juliet stabs herself with a dagger. This is an example of • Irony • Epiphany • Foreshadowing • Motif Answer: A. Irony is a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.