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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