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Literary Devices
Free Response Practice
Poetry
Literary Movements
Book Refresher
100
A clever little story, a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as an example.
What is an anecdote?
100
Choose a character from a play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice, then analyze the character's understanding of justice, the degree to which the character's search for justice is successful, and the significance of the search to the work as a whole.
Beloved, King Lear, Oedipus Rex, and The Stranger
100
Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme.
What is a couplet?
100
This movement is characterized by experimentation with less traditional writing styles, such as stream of consciousness. Writers focused on feelings such as loneliness and isolation, and believed the world was created through individual perception.
What is Modernism?
100
The country King Henry V invades in Henry V.
What is France?
200
Most often, these refer to the Bible or Greek mythology.
What is an allusion?
200
Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character, then analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.
King Lear
200
The words cool, broom, lewd, and loop have ________, a word referring to sound in poetry.
What is assonance?
200
During this movement, African American authors sought to break free of traditional racial stereotypes. It marked the beginning of African American literature being absorbed into mainstream American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
The cruel place where Sethe and Paul D were once enslaved.
What is Sweet Home?
300
This acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literary level, but also stand for something else on the symbolic level.
What is an allegory?
300
Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman (a coming-of-age novel), then analyze how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.
Jane Eyre
300
A sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
300
Writing from this movement relied on techniques such as fragmentation and paradox. The questioning of distinctions between high and low culture through a method known as pastiche was common.
What is Postmodernism?
300
The kind of creature Gregor becomes in The Metamorphosis.
What is a dung beetle?
400
Love, success, freedom, goodness, and democracy are all ______ concepts.
What is abstract?
400
Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil to a main character, then analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.
King Lear
400
Ten syllables in a line, with five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Members of this movement wrote about humans in situations without any inherent purpose. Common elements include satire, dark humor, and ambiguity.
What is Absurdism?
400
The way in which Ted Lavender dies.
What is getting shot in the head?
500
These are two of the four qualities of a tragic hero.
What is has a high status, has a tragic flaw, their downfall is not totally deserved, or their downfall provides catharsis for the audience?
500
Select a work in which a character experiences a rift and becomes cut off from their home, then analyze how the character's experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
Jane Eyre and King Lear
500
The act of marking the accented and unaccented marks in a poem.
What is scanning?
500
This group of writers, notably Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, documented their experiences with war through verse.
Who are the First World War Poets?
500
Nora borrowed money from this person.
Who is Krogstad?