LIT TERM TRIVIA!!
Jordan’s artistic talent is like that of a
cluster of color-blind hedgehogs in a bag. Is
an example of a(n)…
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Alliteration
D. Onomatopoeia
Answer: A) Simile- A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared with
the use of “like” or “as”
Jordan always is a clown
But yet he still makes me frown
A.
B.
C.
D.
Rhyme scheme
Epigram
Couplet
Sonnet
Answer: C) Couplet- a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme
and are of the same length.
The Definition of Doggerel is:
A. A dog made of a certain type of chocolate
B. A composition made by combining
fragments of such printed material as
newspapers, signs, or menus, and
rearranging them into the form of a poem.
C. A derogatory term used to describe poetry
whose subject is trite and whose rhythm and
sounds are monotonously heavy-handed.
D. This is not a Lit term
Answer: C
An Example of Doggerel is…
 “To Banbury I came, O profane one!
Where I saw a Puritane-one
Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday.”
A literary work or section of a work presenting,
usually symbolically, such a moment of
revelation and insight. Is the definition of:
A.
B.
C.
D.
A poem
Epiphany
Elegy
Run on sentence
Answer: B) An epiphany
An example of epiphany…
 I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell;
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
 You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turned so,
Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.
A found poem is…
A. A long lost poem that has been found on the ice
planet of Hoth.
B. The introduction early in a poem of verbal and
dramatic hints on what is going to happen.
C. A brief poem that expresses the personal
emotions and thoughts of a single speaker.
D. A composition made by combining fragments
of such printed material as newspapers, signs,
or menus, and rearranging them into the form
of a poem.
Answer: D
Example of a found poem:
"And hence no force, however great,
can stretch a cord, however fine,
into a horizontal line
that shall be absolutely straight.”
- William Whewell’s "Elementary Treatise on Mechanics"
A succession of metrical feet written, printed,
or orally composed as one line; one of the lines
of a poem. Is the definition of…
A. A limerick
B. Free Verse
C. An Epic
D. Verse
Answer: D) Verse
An example of verse is…
 I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Enjambment is defined as…
A. One who talks a lot
B. The running on of the thought from one line,
couplet, or stanza to the next without a
syntactical break.
C. repeated utterance; reiteration
D. Has no definition
Answer: B) Enjambment-The running on of the thought from one
line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
An example of enjambment is…
 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
When Obi Wan says, “ Why do I get the feeling
you will be the death of me?” to Anakin This is
an example of…
A. A fantastic display of use of the force
B. Diction
C. Flash back
D. Foreshadowing
Answer: D) Foreshadowing- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
“I always come to school… *cough*” says Jordan
is an example of…
A. Complete and utter BS
B. Sarcasm
C. Satire
D. This is so ridiculous that I’m not even going
to answer this question
Answer: B) Sarcasm- a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark
We also would have accepted A
The ordinary form of spoken or written language,
without metrical structure, as distinguished
from poetry or verse. Is the definition of…
A. Verse
B. Stanza
C. Prose
D. Chorus
Answer: C) Prose- the ordinary form of spoken or written language,
without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
An example of prose is…
 Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its
favorite words, which are breath. Or
handwriting: the long tail of the ‘y’
disappearing into a barn like a rodent’s, and
suddenly it is winter after all. After all what?
After the ponds dry up in mid-August
and the children drop pins down each canyon
and listen for an echo
Diction’s definition is…
A. Word choice that conveys a specific purpose
or meaning
B. repeated utterance; reiteration
C. Rhymes with Jordan never comes to
school…
D. the purging of the emotions or relieving of
emotional tensions, esp. through certain
kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
Answer: A)Diction- word choice that conveys a specific purpose or
meaning
Red fish
blue fish
Yellow fish
Jordan fish
Is An Example of…
A. Stanza
B. Verse
C. Repetition
D. Chorus
Answer: C) Repetition-repeated utterance; reiteration
The Orcs of Mordor begin to march
towards the white city of Minas
Tirith. Is an example of…
A. The exciting part
B. The Two Towers
C. Falling action
D. Rising Action
Answer: D) Rising Action is a related series of incidents in a literary plot
that build toward the point of greatest interest.
A short account of a particular incident or
event of an interesting or amusing nature, often
biographical. Is the definition of…
A. Diction
B. Anecdote
C. Journal entry
D. Stanza
Answer: B) Anecdote
An example of anecdote is…
 Mr. Gladstone's fluency in argumentation, although a natural gift,
was purposely fostered by his father: indeed, all the family were
accustomed to argue about everything that turned up at table or
elsewhere. On one occasion William Gladstone and his sister
Mary disputed as to where a certain picture was to be hung. An
old Scotch sen-ant came in with a ladder and stood irresolute
while the argument progressed ; but as Miss Mary would not
yield, William gallantly ceased from speech, though unconvinced
of course. The servant then hung up the picture where the young
lady ordered; but when he had done this he crossed the room
and hammered a nail into the opposite wall. lie was asked why he
did this:
"Aweel, Miss, that'll do to hang the picture on when ye'll have
come roond to Master Willie's opeenion.
Tragedies usually end with a ___, allowing the
audience to relieve emotional tensions, like in
Romeo and Juliet.
A. Catharsis
B. Enjambment
C. Epiphany
D. Doggerel
Answer: A. Catharsis is the purging of the emotions or relieving
of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as
tragedy or music.
AN EPIGRAM IS…
A. At the end of a story to say what happens
after.
B. A short, often satirical poem dealing
concisely with a single subject and usually
ending with a witty or ingenious turn of
thought.
C. A crazy new dance craze in Europe.
D. A three line poem that rhymes.
Answer is B
An example of an epigram is:
Both robb’d of air, we both lie in one ground
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water had
drowned
A stanza is…
A.
B.
C.
D.
A burger at McDonalds that has three 2 pound patties 12 slices of
cheese, and for buns two krispy kreme donuts.
A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject
and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more,
sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming
a division of a poem.
a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as
one line; one of the lines of a poem.
Answer: C
An example of a stanza is:
You could be sitting now in a carrel
Turning some liver-spotted page
Or rising in an elevator-cage
Towards ladies Apparel
“From the molten golden notes, and an in tune,
what a liquid ditty floats” is an example of
A. Alliteration
B. Consonance
C. Hyperbole
D. Assonance
Answer D: A rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different
consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words
A motif is…
A. Something used for or regarded as
representing something else
B. A famous painting by the color blind
hedgehog Jordan Shelton.
C. The release of negative emotions
D. A recurring subject, theme, or idea
Answer D
A motif in Hamlet is incest, a subject
that is repeatedly alluded to in the
play
“He tapped his feet
to the rhythm of the beat”
is an example of
A. Assonance
B. End Rhyme
C. Alliteration
D. Parallel Structure
Answer: B End rhyme is the rhyming of the terminal syllables of lines
of poetry
Narrative Hook is…
A. A literary device used at the beginning of a
story to engage the reader
B. A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting
remark
C. A related series of incidents in a literary plot
that build toward the point of greatest
interest.
D. The running on of the thought from one line,
couplet, or stanza to the next without a
syntactical break.
Answer: A
At the start of the seventh Harry Potter book J.K.
Rowling begins by saying:
“ The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart
in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood
quite still, wands directed at each other’s chests.”
This is an example of a narrative hook
The ___ of the Harry Potter series
is Hogwarts
A. Theme
B. Verse
C. Foreshadowing
D. Setting
Answer: D. Setting is the locale or period in which
the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place
“She strode quickly and confidently
through the square” is an example of
A. Couplet
B. Epigram
C. Parallel Structure
D. Rising Action
Answer: C. Parallel structure is use of the same pattern of
words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of
importance
In Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo finds Juliet in
a drugged death-like sleep, he assumes her to be
dead and kills himself. Upon awakening to find
her dead lover beside her, Juliet stabs herself
with a dagger. This is an example of
A.
Irony
B.
Epiphany
C.
Foreshadowing
D.
Motif
Answer: A. Irony is a technique of indicating, as through character
or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that
which is actually or ostensibly stated.