Literary Terms Quiz

What term describes performing or acting a role in a dramatic performance?

• Play

• Inflection

• Theme

• Tableau

What is a purposeful arrangement of characters frozen as if in a painting or a photograph?

• Rhyme Scheme

• Oral Interpretation

• Tableau

• Theme

What is a consistent pattern of end rhyme throughout a poem called?

• Inflection

• Rhyme Scheme

• Theme

• Play

What is the term for a humorous five-line poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme?

• Free Verse

• Limerick

• Iambic Pentameter

• Drama

What is the term for a type of poetry that does not follow a specific rhyme scheme or meter?

• Free Verse

• Iambic Pentameter

• Limerick

• Drama

What is the term for the rhythmical pattern of a poem?

• Meter

• Inflection

• Theme

• Tableau

What is Alliteration?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a poem

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together

• A type of poem with no rhyme

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

What does it mean to Annotate a text?

• To write a poem

• To write notes to explain or present ideas that help you analyze and understand a text

• To ignore the text

• To memorize the text

What is Staging in theater?

• To write a script

• To produce or direct a theatrical performance

• To act in a play

• To design costumes

What is Rhythm in poetry?

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language

• The rhyme scheme of a poem

• The number of lines in a stanza

• The theme of a poem