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Finish the analogy: Apple is to fruit as cat is to ______.

Finish the analogy: Apple is to fruit as cat is to ______.

What actually happens when Farquhar is hanged?

He dies.

Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?

Hey diddle diddle/The cat and the fiddle

How do we distinguish understatement from exaggeration?

Understatement underplays the truth, while exaggeration overstates it.

The Daily Show is an example of _____.

satire

What literary device is being used when the narrator tells of Farquhar's escape?

A Frame Story

What do we call someone who rarely spends money, even when it's necessary?

A miser

Which of the following is an example of a parody?

A poem that uses similar language and phrasing as a well-known poem, but with a different subject.

Which of the following is NOT a symbol commonly used to represent the United States?

A red wedding dress

What is faulty parallelism?

A sentence that should use parallelism, but doesn't.

How do spoofs and parodies differ?

A spoof mocks a general genre, while a parody mocks a specific work.

What is a literary device?

A way to add meaning and images to writing

What is the setting of the story?

Alabama during the Civil War

In literature, parallelism attempts to do which of the following?

All of these answers are correct

Why would an author use sarcasm?

All of these answers are correct.

Which poets or leaders are known users of anaphora?

Allen Ginsberg

What is an analogy?

An analogy makes a comparison between two known things in order to create understanding of new idea

What is the most common experience of anaphora for readers or listeners?

An experience of any emotion

Flashback is defined as?

An interruption in the present of a vivid memory set in the past.

Anaphora is a rhetorical device. In what way can we consider it a rhetorical device?

Anaphora is a rhetorical device that makes emotion and feeling acceptable to readers of poetry as well as the general public

What are the two ways that anaphora evokes emotional experience?

Anticipation and participation

Anaphora is used by which of the following?

Anyone who wants to engage emotional experience based on participation in the poetic message of participation

What is the purpose of foreshadowing in literature?

Authors use it to hint toward future events, it also helps build suspense and develop the plot.

Authors use flashbacks as a means of adding?

Background information in the present events of the story.

Why is Peyton Farquhar being hanged?

He was a Confederate sympathizer who presumably tried to destroy the Owl Creek Bridge.

In 'The Devil and Tom Walker' by Washington Irving, what does Tom represent late in his life?

Hypocrisy

What does the following analogy mean? 'I feel like a fish out of water.'

I am in a new uncomfortable situation

Proverbs commonly use parallelism, but not every time. Which of the following proverbs uses a parallel structure?

If you can't beat them, join them.

When using a flashback, what type of information is the reader given?

Information about a character's past, secrets, and inner conflicts, or other past events concerning the character.

Why is imagery important?

It can help reinforce the text's meaning.

Which of the following statements about sarcasm in literature is true?

It helps us understand a character better by showing their viewpoint.

What is a dream sequence?

It occurs when a character has fallen asleep and dreams about events of the past.

Why is 'The Devil and Tom Walker' by Washington Irving an allegory?

Its characters, objects, and plot represent larger ideas.

The following quote from 'Wuthering Heights' uses which literary device? Linton's looks and movements were very languid, and his form extremely slight; but there was a grace in his manner that mitigated these defects, and rendered him not unpleasing.

Litotes

Which of the following is an example of the literary device called apostrophe?

Rain, rain, go away

In a prose structure, what is the subtext?

The ideas buried beneath the literal words of the text

How does the reader know that the man who visited Farquhar was from the Union Army?

The narrator reveals that he rode his horse north when Farquhar couldn't see him.

What do we call the tale of the conflict or the clash of characters or ideas in a story?

The story's narrative

The fact that the devil is an actual character in 'The Devil and Tom Walker' by Washington Irving represents what type of Romantic characteristic?

The supernatural

What does the swamp symbolize in 'The Devil and Tom Walker' by Washington Irving?

The wrong path

Why do mystery writers use red herrings?

They are fake clues to lead the reader away from the real answer to the mystery.

What are memories in relation to flashbacks?

They occur when the character is interrupted by thinking about an event in the past.

Which of the following is an example of personification?

Time marches on.

What does the following analogy mean? 'Life is like a box of unmarked chocolates.'

You can't predict the future

Which of the following is an example of auditory imagery from the poem Metaphors by Sylvia Plath?

a riddle in nine syllables

Sarcasm is _____.

a sneering or mocking remark

As a literary device, antithesis has been in use since...

antiquity

'Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are' is an example of _____.

apostrophe

Which is not a part of the setting?

character

Which story element involves the people, animals or objects portrayed in literature?

character

Though some like Charles Dickens might choose to pile antitheses on top of one another, antithetical expressions are frequently...

concise

A story begins at a wedding with a bride (Marie) and groom (Tony) saying their vows. After they say, ''I do,'' the account flashes back to a boy named Tony meeting a girl named Marie on the first day of kindergarten. The narrative proceeds from there. What literary device is being used in this story?

direct foreshadowing

That only the audience knows Louise's husband is not dead in The Story of an Hour is an example of _____.

dramatic irony

The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet is an example of _____.

dramatic irony

Reread the provided excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities'. Looking at the phrase 'we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...', which words make up the antithesis?

everything, nothing

Which point of view allows for insight into a character's, thoughts, decisions and motivations?

first person

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien explains that soldiers use euphemisms like greased, offed, and lit up as a way to talk about _____.

getting killed

In John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678), characters have names like Obstinate, Piety, Faithful and Hopeful as a way to _____.

give ideas a human quality

Using double negatives in a sentence such as It's not unlikely that I will have chocolate for lunch is an example of _____.

litotes

In The Great Gatsby, when Nick Carraway says, 'I lived at West Egg, the - well, the least fashionable of the two,' Nick is using a euphemism instead of talking directly about _____.

money

Which of the following is NOT one of the common tools of satire?

pathos

Which term refers to the sequence of events in a story?

plot

Saying the opposite of what you mean is a type of understatement called _____.

sarcasm

The play The Importance of Being Ernest is an example of _____.

satire

When an author uses sarcasm throughout an entire piece of writing, it is called _____.

satire

In The Story of an Hour, Louise's relief at learning that her husband has been killed in an accident is an example of _____.

situational irony

In a book you are reading, a new character is introduced. On the day of her arrival, a bad storm threatens the town. Later in the story, this character causes a lot of trouble. What literary device is being used in this story?

subtle foreshadowing

In Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, a caged parrot and mockingbird, a pigeon house, and a broken-winged bird are all symbols representing _____.

the confines of female gender roles

In a murder mystery, the main character loves the color red. She wears something red as part of her attire every day, and the story mentions items in her home decor that are also red. This character turns out to be the victim in this mystery. In literary terms, what does the inclusion of all the red items in this story represent?

the red items from this story demonstrate symbolic foreshadowing

Which is not a story element?

title

For what reason would an author employ antithesis?

to highlight contrasting ideas

Saying the opposite of what you mean, sometimes for humorous effect, is an example of _____.

verbal irony

An author might choose to use antithesis over a simple statement of fact because the use of words in this device is much more...

vivid

Antithesis is a literary device that uses words that are x or y.

x=opposites; y=noticeably different

Which of the following quotes utilizes the literary device 'chiasmus'?

'I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.' -Mae West

How does symbolism make writing stronger?

By adding deeper meaning and making it more interesting.

In the basic prose structure, what do we call the part where everything ties up in the end?

Denouement

How do dramatic irony and situational irony differ?

Dramatic irony depends on the audience knowing something the characters don't.

Which of the following is an example of sarcasm?

Earth is full. Go home.

The last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel 'The Great Gatsby' reads as follows: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. What point-of-view does this line's narrator have?

First-person

Which of the following is NOT a euphemism for a bathroom?

Foyer

What does the imagery in the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes symbolize?

The African-American experience

Why do people use euphemisms?

To talk about something without addressing it directly

Jessica returns from a skiing vacation that ended with the ski chalet being destroyed in an avalanche. When she's asked how her vacation went, she replies, I've had more relaxing holidays. Which literary device is she using?

Understatement

Which of the following Shakespearean lines does NOT employ a euphemism?

Wherefore art thou