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Test Date
Thursday, April 30th Literature Section
Collection Test
Focus Literature Selections:
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Candide p.595
The Bet p.1023
Araby p.1324
Don Quixote p.603
Paradise Lost p.351
Focus Literature Terms:
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Allegory: a story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts
Epic simile: extended comparison that draws a parallel between two dissimilar things
Epiphany: a moment of insight or a revelation experienced by a character
Foreshadow: a writer provides clues that hint at what might happen later in the story
Hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration
Imagery: language that appeals to the 5 senses
Irony: a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality – between what is said and what is
really meant (verbal irony), between what is expected and what happens (situational irony), and
between what the characters don’t know and what the reader does know to be true (dramatic irony)
8. Metaphor: comparison of 2 unlike things without using “like” or “as”
9. Parable: a short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life
10. Paradox: an apparent contradiction that is actually true
11. Parody: an imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for amusement or instruction. Often borrow
characteristics of the original work and transfer them to a ridiculous subject. Writers often use verbal
irony, exaggeration, humorous imitation, etc.
12. Parallelism/Parallel Structure: the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same
grammatical structure or that restates a similar idea
13. Personification: giving a nonhuman object human characteristics
14. Satire: writing that ridicules the shortcomings of humanity or institutions in order to bring about
change. Writers want to convince the reader to do or believe something. They use exaggeration,
irony, understatement, ridiculous situations, etc.
15. Simile: comparison of 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”
16. Symbol: a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
17. Theme: the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature
18. Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
 The test will NOT be open book. You may use ONLY this study guide, and you may add notes to this
1 sheet of paper. No additional papers, notes, book, etc. may be used on the test.