Lit Lit Terms
It's the background information about the character's past, family, or significant life events that are directly stated.
What is exposition?
At the end of the novel, "Born to Fly," Amelia Earhardt had a conversation with this fellow female aviator before she left to fly around the world. She said, "If I bop off, ...you can carry on. You all can carry on."
a. Louise Thaden
b. Blanche Noyes
c. Jacqueline Cochran
Who is Louise Thaden?
It is the meaning of the central metaphor "eat in the kitchen" represent in "I, Too."
It's the similarity of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when they are used at the ends of lines in poetry
What is rhyme?
In Booker T. Washington's, Up From Slavery, the description of Hampton as "the greatest place on earth" and more "attractive than heaven" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
It's a reference to something else Using this type of comparison allows the reader to make a connetion to a well-known reference in literature, history or the Bible.
What is allusion?
Which female flyer became the first to break the sound barrier later in 1953?
a. Pancho Barnes
b. Louise Thadden
c. Jacqueline Cochran
Who is Jacqueline Cochran?
In "The Weary Blues," Langston Hughes transitions the structure from an observer's descriptions to this.
What is direct quotations of blues lyrics?
It's a repeat of the same sound at the beginnings of nearby or adjacent words.
What is alliteration?
It's the literary term used to describe a personal story, such as the one in William Holtzclaw's one about the molasses in the dining room in William Holtzclaw's "Booker T. Washington--A Student's Momory of Him".
What is anecdote?
It's a break or pause between words or lines of poetry usually indicated by punctuation.
What is caesura?
In the chapter, Across Texas, these sound and literary devices were used when the author writes, "any mechanical mishap would shakeup the standings"...
a. repetition and foreshadowing
b. alliteration and foreshadowing
c. alliteration and anecdote
In "Weary Blues" the line, "He made that poor piano moan" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
It's a specific type of repetition of a word or phrse at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
What is caesura?
In Isabel Wilkerson's TED Talk, what is this an example of:
"How many 'greats' do you have to add to the word 'grandparent' to begin to imagine how long enslavement lasted in United States?"
a. repetition
b. visual imagery
c. rhetorical question
It's a character who contrasts with another character, typically the protagonist, to highlight specific qualities of the other character.
What is a foil?
This character in Born to Fly passed her flight test less than a month before the women's air derby. She did not gain notice until Day 5 when her plain caught fire.
a. Gladys O'Donnell
b. Blanche Noyes
c. Chubbie Miller
Who is Blanche Noyes?
In "The Weary Blues," the line, "With his ebony hands on each ivory key," these TWO TYPES of imagery or used by Langston Hughes.
a. auditory and visual
b. auditory and tactile
c. tactile and visual
It is a sudden cry or remark, especially one expressing surprise, anger, or pain.
a. exclamation
b. repetition
c. diction
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Hildegarde describes the age of fifty as what?
a. worldly wise
b. the mellow age
c. pale from overwork
It's a recurring element, idea, image, symbol, or theme that appears throughout a literary work.
What is motif?
In the chapter, "Troubles Begin," these pilots ran out gas and had their plan wings collapse.
a. gas - Closson; wings - Earhardt
a. gas - Thaden; wings - O'Donnell
c. gas - Trout ; wings - Fahy
What is
c. gas - Trout ; wings - Fahy?
In the ending lines of "Homesick Blues" the lines:
To keep from cryin,
I opens my mouth and laughs
Hughes uses ________________ as a way for the speaker to cope with his sadness.
a. point of view
b. paradox
c. social commentary
In "Mother to Son," the speaker uses a powerful ___________ when she says:
"But all the time
I'se been a'climbin' on"
despite all of life's hardships.
a. counter narrative
b. mood
c. memoir
Which of Langston Hughes' Poems uses an extended metaphor of a staircase to to express hard-earned wisdom.
a. Weary Blues
b. Homesick Blues
c. Mother to Son
What is "Mother to Son?"