Vocab in Context
When her boss called her into the office, Ari expected to be berated, but she was surprised with a raise.
Demoted in this context most nearly means:
A) Rejected
B) Scolded
C) Intimidated
D) Confused
What is B) Scolded?
Any form of language that involves some element of non-literal meaning
A) Diction
B) Figurative Language
C) Symbolism
D) Informal Language
What is B) Figurative Language?
What is a brief, usually personal story used to add humor or interest?
A) Autobiography
B) Anecdote
C) Hyperbole
D) Idiom
What is B) Anecdote?
“It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the bird landed in the bleeding tree. The flowering garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox.”
Which literary device is NOT used in this excerpt?
A) Imagery
B) Connotation
C) Personification
D) Idiom
What is D) Idiom?
Farewell dear babe, my heart’s too much content,
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,
Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent,
What literary device is NOT used here?
A) Rhyme
B) Repetition
C) Alliteration
D) Simile
E) Metaphor
What is D) Simile?
Joe could not help but feel a little trepidation as he waited for the client to respond to his proposal.
Trepidation most nearly means:
A) Anxious
B) Bedazzled
C) Perplexed
D) Hesitant
What is A) Anxious?
A figure of speech that states a connection between or resemblance between two otherwise unrelated things.
A) Metaphor
B) Hyperbole
C) Juxtaposition
D) Foil
What is A) Metaphor?
A character that remains largely the same throughout the story; often a support character
A) Dynamic Character
B) Foil Character
C) Static Character
D) Scapegoat Character
What is C) Static Character?
“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall” — Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
What is included here?
A) Alliteration
B) Juxtaposition
C) Repetition
D) Dramatic Irony
What is A) Alliteration?
The stench of the apartment threatened to knock me over as I entered.
Stench is an example of:
A) Metaphor
B) Connotation
C) Idiom
D) Inference
What is B) Connotation?
Stephen moved quickly, as ever, to his place, shook hands with his colleagues, and sat down. He made a joke or two, and talked as much as was consistent with due decorum, and then began to work quietly.
Decorum most nearly means:
A) Intensity
B) Appropriateness
C) Shyness
D) Anger
What is B) Appropriateness
The emotional feeling produced in the reader by a work of literature.
A) Tone
B) Logos
C) Mood
D) Plot
What is C) Mood?
What is an author's word choice; usually connected to tone and mood?
A) Connotation
B) Discourse
C) Diction
D) Motif
What is C) Diction?
"I am tired of always feeling like you and dad have more important things than me!" Shawn yelled.
"You bite your tongue, young man," mom replied.
A) Hyperbole
B) Idiom
C) Paradox
D) Pathos
What is B) Idiom?
"A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
What literary device is included here?
A) Symbolism
B) Personification
C) Hyperbole
D) Dramatic Irony
What is C) Hyperbole?
The relationship of the vampire and his assistant seemed to have been reversed, and Igor, now in his early twenties, was the authoritative one; since boyhood he had been taking on one responsibility after another, until he had left the vampire with nothing to perplex him but how to while away the hours.
Perplex most nearly means:
A) Astonish
B) Confuse
C) Trouble
D) Embarrass
What is C) Trouble?
When something well-known is referenced within a work of literature.
A) Personification
B) Juxtaposition
C) Imagery
D) Allusion
What is D) Allusion?
Rising action, climax, inciting event, etc. are all parts of _______________.
A) Plot Structure
B) Sentence Structure
C) Paragraph Structure
D) Diagram Organization
What is A) Plot Structure?
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
A) Simile
B) Personification
C) Metaphor
D) Paradox
What is C) Metaphor?
Using strong emotional language/imagery in order to persuade an audience is known as:
A) Pathos
B) Logos
C) Ethos
D) Rhetoric
What is A) Pathos?
In his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath , novelist John Steinbeck movingly describes the plight of migrant farm workers in California forced to work under brutal and dehumanizing conditions.
Plight most nearly means:
A) daily routines
B) lifestyles
C) suffering
D) habits
What is C) suffering?
The perspective from which a story or essay is written; the angle of vision on a topic
A) Tone
B) Mood
C) Diction
D) Point of View
What is D) Point of View?
When an author places two or more contrasting characters, places, etc. beside each other to encourage comparison.
A) Hyperbole
B) Irony
C) Juxtaposition
D) Epigraph
What is C) Juxtaposition?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
A) Personification
B) Allusion
C) Simile
D) Inference
What is A) Personification?
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows Juliet is in a drugged sleep, so when Romeo thinks she is dead and kills himself (followed by Juliet doing the same) it increases the audience's shock.
This is an example of:
A) Situational Crisis
B) Plot Structure
C) Situational Irony
D) Dramatic Irony
What is D) Dramatic Irony?