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What is alliteration?
“Fred found forty frogs.”
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What is a paradox?
A statement that seems self-contradictory
or absurd but in reality expresses a
possible truth.
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What is ambiguity?
When a passage has multiple
interpretations like the A that appears
in the sky the night Dimmesdale calls
Hester and Pearl to join him on the
scaffold.
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What is a theme?
A deep, difficult to understand, or moralistic
message of a piece of literature.
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What is an archetype?
The hero, the villain, the princess, etc.
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What is interrogative?
Are you going to study so your final exam can help
your final grade in the class?
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What is imperative?
Sit down and study in a quiet place.
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What is declarative?
You won’t pass this exam if you don’t know the
literary terms well, both definitions and how they
look in application.
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What is telegraphic?
The shortest type of sentence.
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What is B?
This sentence is periodic:
A. The customer complained loudly.
B. In opening minds, instilling values, and
creating opportunities, education has no equal.
C. The weary passengers waited for hours in
customs, endured a delay before finding their
luggage, and sat in traffic all the way home.
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What is fear?
The emotion to which Edwards appealed in
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
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What is the Romantic Period?
The time period in which The Scarlet Letter was written and
the time period in which its author lived.
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What is A?
The time period in which The Scarlet Letter was set:
A)Colonial Period
B)Neoclassical Period
C)Romantic Period
D)Realist Period
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What is a sonnet?
Sor Juana wrote a 14-line poem about the value she
Places in spirituality, which is this poetic form.
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What is orally?
Native American literature was not at first written
because it was originally created in this form.
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What is a simile?
Name the figure of speech:
"He now dug into the poor
clergyman's heart, like a miner
searching for gold”
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What is dramatic irony?
The townspeople think Dimmesdale is the holiest
vessel in their community while we know that he is
the father of Pearl.
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What is an allusion?
When Hester holding Pearl on the scaffold
is compared to Mary holding the baby Jesus.
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What is a symbol?
A crucible is a kind of bowl used to heat up
chemicals or metals in alchemy.
Philosophically, the term crucible can refer to
activities that are very difficult, but act as a
refining or hardening process.
In the play, Proctor is "purified” and regains
his integrity and standing in the town, by
refusing to confess, making the title a _______.
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What are foil characters?
Elizabeth is a pure woman, so much
that there is even some coldness in
her sexual relationship, while Abigail
is a liar and a harlot, making these
characters ____________.
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