This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A short poem of personal feelings A) Pyrrhic. B) Motif. C) Iamb. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 2. "A portion of your purchase will go to helping to feed the homeless of the greater metro area" is an example of which appeal? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 3. When the audience knows or understands something that the character does not ..... In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear thinks he is a real space ranger while the other toys and the audience know that Buzz is just a toy A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 4. Central character who lacks the qualities traditionally associated with aHero A) Anti-Hero. B) Foil Character. C) Antagonist. D) Stock Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-Hero. 5. Did the main character of "Winter Dreams" ever marry the person he/she liked? A) Yes. B) No. C) Story didn't say. D) In the dream yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 6. A word that modifies an adjective A) Verb. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) Interjection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverb. 7. Comparing two or more unlike objects using like, as, or sometimes than A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Extended metaphor. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. To spread through every part A) Venture. B) Pervade. C) Prosperity. D) Agitated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pervade. 9. The repetition of one initial sound, usually a consonant, in more than one word A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. Who was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) William Bartram. C) Timothy Dwight. D) Francis Hopkinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Timothy Dwight. 11. Situations in which the audience knows more than the character on stage A) Comedic irony. B) Tragic irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 12. To outline or sketch; to prefigure; overshadow A) Outline. B) Escew. C) Vernacular. D) Sedition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outline. 13. What is the most common form of poetry of "The Beat Generation" A) First person voice form. B) Confessional third person voice. C) Open-verse form. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Open-verse form. 14. When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events. A) AN. Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Rhetoric. D) E. Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E. Allusion. 15. "Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight" A) Psalm 137. B) Thanatopsis. C) Rip Van Winkle. D) To a Waterfowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To a Waterfowl. 16. "to completely destroy; wipe out" is the definition for A) Subjugate. B) Extirpate. C) Proselytize. D) Colonize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extirpate. 17. Define PLOT. A) A literary device that allows the writer of a narrative to establish the time, location, and environment in which it takes place. B) That particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point. C) The structure what happens in a story; events, actions, or turning points that create conflicts or raise dramatic questions, leading to subsequent events that are connected to each other as a means of "answering" the dramatic question and conflict. D) One of the elements of plat that occurs right after the climax, when the main problem of the story resolves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The structure what happens in a story; events, actions, or turning points that create conflicts or raise dramatic questions, leading to subsequent events that are connected to each other as a means of "answering" the dramatic question and conflict. 18. The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) A. Metaphor. B) B. Satire. C) S. anaphora. D) D. Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. anaphora. 19. What style of poetry did Wheatley use in a lot of the poems we read? A) Sonnets. B) Limericks. C) Heroic Couplets. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heroic Couplets. 20. The Sun Also Rises A) Washington Irving. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) William Faulkner. D) Ray Bradbury. 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