Literary Terms Quiz

What literary term is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices?

• Satire

• Extended Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

What literary term is a contrast between what is said and what is meant?

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Quatrain

• Refrain

What literary term is a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person?

• Synecdoche

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Elegy

Which literary term is a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas?

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Extended Metaphor

• Metonymy

What literary term is a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes?

• Synecdoche

• Quatrain

• Refrain

• Naturalism

Which literary term is a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza?

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Quatrain

• Refrain

Which literary term is a character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the other character?

• Modernism

• Surrealism

• Foil

• Transcendentalism

What literary term is a symbolic representation of abstract ideas through characters, events, or other elements?

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Dirge

What literary term is a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction?

• Dramatic Irony

• Quatrain

• Refrain

• Apostrophe

Which literary term is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa?

• Romanticism

• Synecdoche

• Naturalism

• Realism