2nd Nine Weeks Literary Terms Question Preview (ID: 33088)


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a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) allusion
d) bias

reason that explains a character’s thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech
a) motivation
b) irony
c) figurative language
d) author's purpose

the feeling that the author is writing with
a) mood
b) setting
c) narrator
d) tone

the reason the text is written; to inform, entertain, persuade, etc.
a) bias
b) writer's/author's purpose
c) irony
d) drama

the features that help the reader understand the text
a) text features
b) poetry
c) bias
d) drama

a story written to be performed or acted out by actors; written only in dialogue
a) historical fiction
b) poetry
c) drama
d) nonfiction

notes included in a drama, but not spoken; they are used to give directions on how things should be on stage
a) monologue
b) stage directions
c) dialogue
d) acting

writing that is not meant to be taken literally
a) author's purpose
b) drama
c) figurative language
d) bias

a comparison of two unlike things using the words “is” or “was”
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) idiom
d) imagery

a comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”
a) metaphor
b) personification
c) imagery
d) simile

words that imitate sounds
a) personification
b) simile
c) onomatopoeia
d) idiom

a figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas
a) imagery
b) oxymoron
c) personification
d) paradox

figure of speech that gives nonhuman things human characteristics
a) personification
b) symbol
c) monologue
d) actors

a word is its dictionary meaning, and has no other associations to any other meaning
a) connotation
b) paradox
c) denotation
d) allegory

all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
a) denotation
b) monologue
c) symbolism
d) connotation

language that appeals to the reader’s senses
a) imagery
b) idiom
c) simile
d) oxymoron

an expression that has a meaning particular to a language, region, or cultural
a) idiom
b) irony
c) imagery
d) imagination

when something is said but means the opposite; mostly known as sarcasm
a) situational irony
b) verbal irony
c) dramatic irony
d) imagery

the audience is aware of something that happening and the other characters do not know it
a) dramatic irony
b) situational irony
c) verbal irony
d) imagery

a contradiction between what happens and what is expected
a) imagery
b) idiom
c) simile
d) irony

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