Exam # 3 Key

 

 

1.      A character who serves to underscore another character's traits through contrast.

 

         B.  foil  

 

2.      Intentional exaggeration for effect, particularly in poetry

 

        D.  hyperbole

 

3.      A scene that takes place before the ongoing events in a work; a method of narration in which

         present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events.

 

         C.  flashback  

 

4.      Something that represents something else in complex ways

 

        C.    symbol              

 

5.      A metrical unit specific to poetry.

 

         A.  foot 

 

6.      The speaker of a poem.

 

         B.  persona 

 

7.      The largest subdivision of a play is a/an

 

         A.    act  

 

8.      In a play, a sequence with continuous time and space is a/an

 

         B.    scene 

 

9.      The point of highest tension in some literary works, the major turning point (or crisis)

 

         A.    climax 

 

10.     When one character talks onstage at length and other characters are silent, it is called

 

         D.    a monologue

 

11.     The introductory material in a play or other literary work that gives setting, introduces characters,
         and supplies information needed for us to understand what is happening is called

 

         C.    exposition   

 

12.     When one or more characters converse, it is called

 

         B.    a dialogue 

 

13.     When a character in a short story or novel is telling the story, it is said to be in

 

         A.    first person

 

14.     A sudden moment of enlightenment is called a/an

 

         D.    epiphany

 

15.     The literary technique of opening a story in the middle of its action is called

 

         A.    in media res 

 

16.     When a character is alone on stage and gives a speech that indicates his or her thoughts and state of mind,

 

         C.    a soliloquy    

 

17.     A recurring element is called a/an

 

         D.   motif

 

18.     When a character on stage turns and briefly addresses the audience

 

         D.    an aside

 

19.     When a work of fiction ends with a conclusion that wraps everything up.

 

         A.    closed ending 

 

20.     A turning point in a plot

 

         B.    crisis   

 

21.     The repetition of consonant sounds following different vowels sounds inside words in proximity (as in

         “babble and rubble” or “entice” and “intact”).

 

         C.    consonance     

 

22.     The repetition of identical or very similar vowel sounds (usually in stressed syllables) followed by

         different consonant sounds in words in close proximity (as in “bad cat” or “cold bloke”).

 

         D.    assonance

 

23.     The repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words in close proximity ( as in “soul so sunk in sin”).

 

         B.    alliteration   

 

24.     When a work of fiction does not end with a conclusion that wraps everything up.

 

         B.    open ending       

 

25.     An indirect reference to a person, event, or statement found in literature, the arts, myth, religion, or culture.

 

         B.    allusion        

 

26.     Figure of speech where a poet addresses an absent person or thing which cannot actually hear him or her.

 

         A.    apostrophe   

 

27.     When a line of poetry caries over into the next line before it expresses a complete thought

 

         C.    enjambment

 

28.     The association(s) evoked by a word beyond its literal meanings.

 

         A.    connotation        

 

29.     Language used to convey a sensory impression or experience.

 

         C.    imagery       

 

30.     Poem with three quatrains and a couplet.

 

         A.    English sonnet   

 

31.     Poetry that communicates a speaker’s mood, feelings, or state of mind. 

 

         B.    lyric   

 

32.     A character who changes during the course of a literary work

 

   A.    dynamic    

 

33.     Four lines of poetry

 

         C.    quatrain     t

 

34.     Poem with an octet and a sestet.

 

         B.    Italian sonnet       

 

35.     The recurrence of regular repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry.

        

         A.    meter      

 

36.     Something that hints at something yet to come in a work

 

         D.    foreshadowing

 

37.     A comparison that is implicit, as when something is said to be something else.

                             

         B.    metaphor  

 

38.     A comparison that is explicit, as when something is said to be like something else

 

         D.    simile

 

39.     An extended metaphor that is characterized by unusual analogies or imagery

 

         D.   metaphysical conceit

 

40.   A type of narrative where the author tells us none of the characters' thoughts or feelings.

 

         C.  objective        

 

41.     The general mood of a work, often created in part by setting.

 

         A.  atmosphere   

 

42.     A poem that lists a woman's charms from head to foot or foot to head.

 

         A.   blason           

 

43.     Another literary term for conclusion.

 

         A.  dénouement      

 

44.     The idiosyncratic choices a particular writer makes, especially as pertains to language.

 

         D.  style

 

45.     An emotional  turning point in an Italian sonnet.

 

         B.  volta        

 

46.  The idiomatic style of speech and words used in a given region.

 

         D.  dialect

 

47.  Word choice; vocabulary

 

         D.  diction

 

48.     A poem written about bereavement.

 

         C.  epic    

 

49.     The underlying meaning of a work

 

         D.    theme

 

50.     Something said that is different from what was intended, something that a character believes that the audience            knows to be false, a course of action that turns out to have the opposite effect than what was intended, etc.

 

         C.    irony