Quizz Literary Terms

The ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text.

• Dialogue

• Genre

• Characterization

• Plot

The sequence of events that occur through a work to produce a coherent narrative or story.

• Style

• Plot

• Imagery

• Theme

Themes in literature tend to differ depending on author, time period, genre, style, purpose, etc.

• Theme

• Symbol(ism)

• Style

• Imagery

Answer explanation

According to Baldick, a theme may be defined as “a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of its subject-matter; or a topic recurring in a number or literary works” (Baldick 258).

A kind of literature. For instance, comedy, mystery, tragedy, satire, elegy, romance, and epic are all genres. Texts frequently draw elements from multiple genres to create dynamic narratives.

• Dialogue

• Genre

• Parody

• Simile

Answer explanation

Alastair Fowler uses the following elements to define genres: organizational features (chapters, acts, scenes, stanzas); length; mood (the Gothic novel tends to be moody and dark); style (a text can be high, low, or in-between depending on its audience); the reader’s role (readers of a mystery are expected to interpret evidence)

A figure of speech that compares two people, objects, elements, or concepts using “like” or “as.”

• Parody

• Irony

• Theme

• Simile

A narrative work or writing style that mocks or mimics another genre or work.

• Smile

• Plot

• Parody

• Simbol

The cask of amontillado Is a short story

• By Jack London

• By Pablo Neruda

• By Clementina Suárez

• By Edgar Allán Poe

Spoken exchanges between characters in a dramatic or literary work, usually between two or more speakers.

• Style

• Genre

• Dialogue

• Imagery

Be associated to the genre or mode of writing the author adopts, such as in the case of a satire or elegy with would adopt a satirical or elegiac style of writing.

• Style

• Theme

• Irony

• Dialogue

Answer explanation

Comprising an author’s diction, syntax, tone, characters, and other narrative techniques, “style” is used to describe the way an author uses language to convey his or her ideas and purpose in writing. An author’s style can also be associated to the genre or mode of writing the author adopts, such as in the case of a satire or elegy with would adopt a satirical or elegiac style of writing.

The short tale "to buil a fire" by

• Jack London

• Edgar Allán Poe

• Gael García Márquez