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Literary terms Test

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Literary terms

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5 Matching Questions

  1. allegory
  2. synecdoche
  3. antagonist
  4. assonance
  5. mood
  1. a using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels")
  2. b someone who offers opposition
  3. c narrative in which everything stands for something else
  4. d the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
  5. e the feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
  2. using words that imitate the sound they denote
  5. the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words

5 True/False Questions

  1. similewitty language used to convey insults or scorn


  2. apostrophea writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent.


  3. metonymyincongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs


  4. epiphanya revelation; sudden knowledge or insight


  5. symbolsomething visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible