Literary Terms Quiz 1

"To educators, navigating virtual education is like being a first-year teacher all over again." This is an example of ...

• allusion

• aubade

• analogy

• couplet

Which term means "a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person"?

• anecdote

• bildungsroman

• cacophony

• caesura

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Unrhymed iambic pentameter, a line of five feet.

• ballad
• blank verse
• anaphora
• aside

A narrative either in verse or prose, in which characters, actions, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story.

• allusion
• allegory
• ballad
• cacophony

A brief reference to a person, event, or place in history, or to a work of art/literature.

• anaphora
• allegory
• allusion
• aside

In drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker’s words.

• ballad
• aside
• cacophony
• assonance