Semester Exam Review #3 - Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 12518)


Various Literary Elements. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Tragedy
a) a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force
b) a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending
c) an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel
d) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone

comedy
a) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone
b) an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel
c) a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending
d) a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force

Poetry
a) writing arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
b) an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters
c) a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending
d) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone

soliloquy
a) a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections
b) a relief from the emotional tension
c) a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy
d) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone

Drama
a) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone
b) a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force
c) theatrical performance usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue
d) a relief from the emotional tension

sonnet
a) a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
b) an utterance meant to be inaudible to someone
c) a fixed verse formpoetry consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming
d) a relief from the emotional tension

Repetition
a) a figure of speech that produces a self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness”
b) a unifying or dominant idea
c) a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
d) the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

oxymoron
a) a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
b) a unifying or dominant idea
c) the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
d) a figure of speech that produces a self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness”

Theme
a) the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
b) a unifying or dominant idea
c) the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by
d) a state or quality of feeling at a particular time

mood
a) a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
b) a unifying or dominant idea
c) the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
d) the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by

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