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Literary Terms Quiz
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Name (Last Name, First)
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Ex: Kirkland, Mallory
Your answer
Class Period
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Ex: Choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Your answer
Mood
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Author's feelings towards the text
Reader's feelings towards the text
Comparing something using like or as
The feeling of the characters
Foreshadowing
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When the author provides clues as to what will happen next in the story
Author's feelings towards the text
Giving humanlike characteristics to nonhuman objects
Comparing two objects not using like or as
Hyperbole
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Using figures to represent ideas or concepts
Author's word choice
Reference to history
Extreme exaggeration
Alliteration
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Comparison using like or as
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
Dictionary definitions of words
Main idea of the novel
Conceit
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Reference to greek mythology
Author's feelings towards the text
Comparison between two unlike things
The feelings of the characters
Motif
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Recurring symbol
Reader's feelings or emotions towards a text
Giving humanlike characteristics to nonhuman objects
When something happens you don't expect to happen
Extended Metaphor
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Lengthy comparison using like or as
Objects that represent another object or idea
Lengthy comparison not using like or as
Main idea of a text
Oxymoron
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Comparison using like or as
Giving humanlike characteristics to nonhuman objects
Word order
Contradictory phrase
Dramatic Irony
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Saying one thing and meaning something else
Something happens that we don't expect to happen
Contradictory phrase
We know something that the character doesn't
Onomatopoeia
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Use of sounds that are similar to the words they represent
Comparison using like or as
Giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman objects
Comparison not using like or as
Syntax
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Author's word choice
Author's word order
Author's feelings towards a text
Reader's feelings towards a text
Tone
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Reader's feelings towards the text
Author's feelings towards the text
Main idea of the novel
Play on words
Apostrophe
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Reference to an author
Comparison using like or as
Mixed metaphor
Addressing an object or abstraction that is not physically present
Verbal Irony
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Saying one thing and meaning another
We know something the character does not
Something happens we don't expect to happen
Author's word choice
Connotation
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Dictionary definition of a word
Meanings associated with a word
Word order
Author's feelings towards the text
Diction
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Word Order
Thoughts expressed by the author
Word Choice
Readers feelings towards the text
Symbolism
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Creating pictures with words
Deriving a deeper meaning from the text
Using objects to represent other objects or ideas
Extreme exaggeration
Pun
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Play on words
Author's feelings towards the text
Word order
Comparison between to unlike objects
Dialect
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Word Choice
Regional variety of language
Word Order
Play on words
Imagery
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Comparison using like or as
Repetition of beginning sounds
How the reader imagines the text
Use of language to create pictures
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