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Elements of Lit.
Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Within the main comparison of "The Windows," the word 'anneal' conveys God's ability to forgive our sins. | False |
| In "Mother to Son" the speaker's perseverance is commendable , even scriptural. | True |
| John's statement "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" contains an example of synecdoche. | True |
| The world's first poem was created by Eve when she first saw Adam. | False |
| In "The Return of the Rangers," Roberts often relies on personification to show the dangers of nature. | True |
| Understanding the Bible's literary features helps Christians better understand God's message. | True |
| Petrunkevitch's essay "The Spider and the Wasp" shows how informative literature is the most likely kind to use imaginative comparisons effectively. | False |
| Imaginative comparisons inherently communicate information less clearly than literal language. | False |
| In "A Bird Came Down the Walk," Dickinson employs personification to better catch readers' interest. | True |
| An extended metaphor is the term used when the tenor remains unstated. | False |
| The hero of Kenneth Roberts's "Return of the Rangers" is clearly Captain Ogden. | False |
| Kenneth Roberts's polished writing style incorporates parallelism to aid in compression and in maintaining a matter-of-fact approach. | True |
| The core mark of great writing. | Theme |
| A complex form of an extended metaphor. | Allegory |
| A speaker's or writer's directly addressing an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate object. | Apostrophe |
| The use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sound. | Cacophony |
| A type of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two seemingly different things. | Conceit |
| The use of words whose sounds are pleasant and musical to the ear. | Euphony |
| An artful deviation from literal speech or normal word order. | Figurative language |
| Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions in order to crate an impression. | Imagery |
| An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself. | Metonomy |
| Giving human characteristics to something that is not human. | Personification |
| Using part of something to stand for the whole. | Synecdoche |
| A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. | Theme |
| The term for a metaphor whose tenor remains unstated. | Implied Metaphor |
| In a metaphor the original subject which the metaphor seeks to describe. | Tenor |
| A comparison of two unlike objects using like or as. | Simile |
| The major turning point for the main character; the point at which something happens that affects the outcome of the story and determines the future of the main character. | Crisis |
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