American Literature Quiz 81 (20 MCQs)

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1. People who have gone through ....., like the hardship of losing someone they love, sometimes go see a counselor for help coping

Correct Answer: A) Adversity.

2. True or False:In order to be persuasive, a writer needs to take into consideration their audience's values, backgrounds, and needs?

Correct Answer: B) True.

3. Events are told by a character in the story using his or her own words

Correct Answer: B) First person point of view.

4. Marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy

Correct Answer: D) Ostentatious.

5. A form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the word.

Correct Answer: A) Irony.

6. Who coined the term "Tranquilized fifties?"

Correct Answer: B) Lowell.

7. In "Everything Stuck to Him, " how did the husband most clearly feel about the incident with the plate of waffles and bacon?

Correct Answer: B) He found the incident rather humorous.

8. Which is the only book Thomas Jefferson had written?

Correct Answer: A) Notes on the State of Virginia.

9. The opposite of berate is

Correct Answer: D) Praised.

10. Carl Sandburg mostly used what type of poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Free Verse.

11. Define MANIFEST.

Correct Answer: B) Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent.

12. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "paragon."

Correct Answer: D) Noun.

13. Which of the following is a cautionary tale that bad things will happen if you do wrong?

Correct Answer: D) Trickster tale.

14. The purpose of this was to explain how life/ Earth came to be

Correct Answer: B) Creation myth.

15. Poetry that is without regular rhythm and without regular rhyme

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

16. Rhyme that occurs withing the lines of poetry

Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme.

17. Which type of writing is a LONG work of fiction?

Correct Answer: A) Novel.

18. To drop or reject.

Correct Answer: D) Jilt.

19. The character who opposes or is against the main character

Correct Answer: B) Antagonist.

20. A one-way process, where the minority culture adopts the practices, beliefs, and values of the dominant culture.

Correct Answer: A) Assimilation.