Try your hand at the following little quiz and see how you do! Remember, print it out and turn it in for additional credit.
1. __________________________is a form of understatement. It may have two negations together such as: "She was not an unattractive young woman" - spoken of Beyonce, which would imply by the understatement that she was in fact quite attractive. It implies a certain irony or sarcasm.
2. " It isn't very serious. I have a tiny tumor on my brain." (CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger) would be an example of __________________.
3. _________________________is a form of overstatement which is usually used for humorous effect.
4. "My sister wears so much make-up she's gotta use a chisel to get it off at night" would be an example of ______________________.
5. Writers use specific details such as dialect, certain character types, cultural customs, topography, etc. to paint a very specific portrait of a region. The reference to an Amish farmer driving his horse and buggy down the shoulder of an interstate highway would be an example of ______________by a writer who is describing a community in Pennsylvania.
6. ____________________(also known as regionalism) was a popular movement in 19th Century literature and poetry that concentrated on particular regions of the United States; the Old South was a particularly favorite region to be so honored. One purpose of this movement was to preserve the uniqueness of a region in the face of a quickly changing world. Mark Twain and Kate Chopin would be considered writers belonging to this category.
7. _________________is a term used in theatre when a character "steps aside" to deliver a line either to him/herself or to the audience which reveals the inner thoughts of the character. This term is called an ______________ because in the performance the character literally "steps aside" to deliver the line which is not presumably heard by the other character. This is found in many plays by Shakespeare and Moliere.
8. A ______________________is the reversal of the order of the words (and hence the thought) of two otherwise parallel lines.
An example of this would be "Never be fooled by a kiss or a fool kiss you". The word _____________comes from the Greek which means "cross".
9. ___________________is a French word which means the unraveling or untying of the knot. Another word for this would be resolution. The _________________occurs after the climax in which all the narrative questions are answered and the conflicts are resolved. An example of ________________ in MACBETH would be the killing of MacBeth by MacDuff and the institution of Malcolm as the rightful king of Scotland.
10. ________________is the back story or the events that either happened before the play begins or the events that have occurred off stage. One example of this would be the sergeant's speech in Act 1, Scene 1 in MACBETH in which the character describes to King Duncan a battle in which MACBETH has performed with great honor.
11. ___________________occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction (such as death: "Death, where is thy sting?") or to someone who is absent (as in JULIUS CAESAR when Mark Antony says,"Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.")
12. ____________________is the use of a part to represent the whole, as in "mouths to feed" to represent the hungry; the whole represents the part (as in the police to represent a handful of officers; or the Pentagon to represent the top echelon of generals in the Pentagon); the genus to represent the species (as in Judas to represent a traitor; or coke to represent soda); the species to represent the genus (as in mankind to represent women or creature to represent a human) and/or the material from which something is made to represent the thing (as in plastic for credit cards; or ivories for piano keys.)
13. ___________________is an extended metaphor comparing two dissimilar things; the comparison of which is so apt that it conveys a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the things compared. This literary device takes a subject and explores the many metaphorical possibilites that this subject may hold.
14. Comparing Scylla's plucking of the men from Odysseus's ship to a fisherman catching a fish would be an example of _____________________.
15. A ___________________is the use of an object that is closely related to another. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a double __________because the pen refers to print journalism and the sword refers to the military. Tell me, if a guy says he is going to "go out and chase some skirt tonight", is he using a _________________ or a synecdoche?
I'm getting a little tired now, so I'm going to knock off. I'll try to do some more questions tomorrow night. Have fun! And I'll see you tomorrow.
1. __________________________is a form of understatement. It may have two negations together such as: "She was not an unattractive young woman" - spoken of Beyonce, which would imply by the understatement that she was in fact quite attractive. It implies a certain irony or sarcasm.
2. " It isn't very serious. I have a tiny tumor on my brain." (CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger) would be an example of __________________.
3. _________________________is a form of overstatement which is usually used for humorous effect.
4. "My sister wears so much make-up she's gotta use a chisel to get it off at night" would be an example of ______________________.
5. Writers use specific details such as dialect, certain character types, cultural customs, topography, etc. to paint a very specific portrait of a region. The reference to an Amish farmer driving his horse and buggy down the shoulder of an interstate highway would be an example of ______________by a writer who is describing a community in Pennsylvania.
6. ____________________(also known as regionalism) was a popular movement in 19th Century literature and poetry that concentrated on particular regions of the United States; the Old South was a particularly favorite region to be so honored. One purpose of this movement was to preserve the uniqueness of a region in the face of a quickly changing world. Mark Twain and Kate Chopin would be considered writers belonging to this category.
7. _________________is a term used in theatre when a character "steps aside" to deliver a line either to him/herself or to the audience which reveals the inner thoughts of the character. This term is called an ______________ because in the performance the character literally "steps aside" to deliver the line which is not presumably heard by the other character. This is found in many plays by Shakespeare and Moliere.
8. A ______________________is the reversal of the order of the words (and hence the thought) of two otherwise parallel lines.
An example of this would be "Never be fooled by a kiss or a fool kiss you". The word _____________comes from the Greek which means "cross".
9. ___________________is a French word which means the unraveling or untying of the knot. Another word for this would be resolution. The _________________occurs after the climax in which all the narrative questions are answered and the conflicts are resolved. An example of ________________ in MACBETH would be the killing of MacBeth by MacDuff and the institution of Malcolm as the rightful king of Scotland.
10. ________________is the back story or the events that either happened before the play begins or the events that have occurred off stage. One example of this would be the sergeant's speech in Act 1, Scene 1 in MACBETH in which the character describes to King Duncan a battle in which MACBETH has performed with great honor.
11. ___________________occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction (such as death: "Death, where is thy sting?") or to someone who is absent (as in JULIUS CAESAR when Mark Antony says,"Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.")
12. ____________________is the use of a part to represent the whole, as in "mouths to feed" to represent the hungry; the whole represents the part (as in the police to represent a handful of officers; or the Pentagon to represent the top echelon of generals in the Pentagon); the genus to represent the species (as in Judas to represent a traitor; or coke to represent soda); the species to represent the genus (as in mankind to represent women or creature to represent a human) and/or the material from which something is made to represent the thing (as in plastic for credit cards; or ivories for piano keys.)
13. ___________________is an extended metaphor comparing two dissimilar things; the comparison of which is so apt that it conveys a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the things compared. This literary device takes a subject and explores the many metaphorical possibilites that this subject may hold.
14. Comparing Scylla's plucking of the men from Odysseus's ship to a fisherman catching a fish would be an example of _____________________.
15. A ___________________is the use of an object that is closely related to another. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a double __________because the pen refers to print journalism and the sword refers to the military. Tell me, if a guy says he is going to "go out and chase some skirt tonight", is he using a _________________ or a synecdoche?
I'm getting a little tired now, so I'm going to knock off. I'll try to do some more questions tomorrow night. Have fun! And I'll see you tomorrow.
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