Literary Terms Pop Quiz 2024-2025 (A4)

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• Leerjaar 4

Which literary device is used here?
“Does a dream deferred dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. assonance
4. personification

Which of the following contains an example of personification?

1. He played the piano like a superstar.
2. My computer was working very hard.
3. Her eyes sparkled like champagne.
4. The sun made the sky brighter.

If an author uses _____________, he/she uses visually descriptive or figurative language.

1. allusion
2. metaphor
3. repetition
4. imagery

A(n) ___________________ is something that stands for something else.

1. symbol
2. metaphor
3. simile
4. irony

Which of the following examples is NOT an example of assonance?
(fron the poem "Still I Rise")

1. .... got gold ...
2. with ... bitter ... twisted
3. I'll rise
4. welling & swelling

Foreshadowing is .....

1. The perspective from which a story is told.
2. When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things.
3. When an author gives the reader hints or clues about what will happen next.
4. The time and place of a work.

What is the point of view / narrative perspective of "Genesis and Catastrophe"?

1. first person
2. third person objective
3. third person limited
4. third person omniscient

In "Civil War", Jim Dolan is a ......................... character?

1. flat and static
2. flat and dynamic
3. round and static
4. round and dynamic

Which of the following themes are present in the story "Broken Things"? More than one answer is possible.

1. prejudice
2. religion
3. mother-son relationship
4. divorce

In Raymond Carver's "The Lie," what is the lie that the wife and the protagonist argue about?

1. She wants to surprise her partner with a gift.
2. She tries to hide a serious health issue.
3. He claims that he has quit gambling.
4. We (the readers) don't know.