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Unit VI
Essay and Short Story
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the type of irony which occurs when a speaker's actual meaning differs from what he or she directly expresses in words? | Verbal Irony |
| What is the type of irony that generates two layers of meaning, one literal and one implied? | Structural Irony |
| What is the type of irony that contrasts what is reasonable to expect and what actually happens in a story. | Situational Irony |
| What is the type of situational irony where the reader is aware of a plot development but the characters are unaware. | Dramatic Irony |
| What two types of irony are found in Benchley's "How to Get Things Done"? | Verbal, Structual |
| "A Miserable Christmas" is written from what point of view? | First-person point of view |
| Steffens uses foreshadowing and situational irony in "A Miserable Christmas". | True |
| Is "Why the Leaves Turn Color in the Fall" a formal or informal essay? | Formal |
| When does the climax of "A Miserable Merry Christmas" occur? | Lennie's pony is delivered to the house. |
| What does Blanches's name in "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" indicate? | Purity, Goodnes |
| Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" primarily presents a nineteenth-century Romantic view of what? | Love |
| What device does Doyle use in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" to explain Helen Stoner's reasons for meeting Holmes? | Flashback |
| The crisis/climax of Doyle's story occurs when? | Holmes's fight with the snake |
| In "A Visit of Charity" Welty describes Addie in terms of a what? | Lamb |
| What possesions are especially prized by Jonathan in "Civil Peace"? | Four heads and his bike |
| Which statement does Jonathan repeat in the face of obstacles? | "Nothing puzzles God" |
| Achebe uses what technique to add to the realism of his characters in Civil Peace? | Dialect |
| The last element of the plot in which the major complications are explained or settled. | Denouement |
| The events that unfold the results of the crisis and lead to the conclusion. | Falling Action |
| The narrator tell the story in third-person but "gets inside" only one of the characters, and the situation | Limited-omniscient point of view |
| The part of the story's plot that introduces the reader to the setting, the characters, and the situation. | Exposition |
| The plot's moment of highest emotional intensity. | Climax |
| The events that lead up to the crisis of the story. | Rising Action |
| The plot's major turning point at which something happens that affects the outcome of the story and determines the future of the main character. | Crisis |
| The occurrence that sets the events of the conflict in motion. | Inciting Incident |
| The narrator tells his story in third person, and as the storyteller he "knows all". | Omniscient point of view. |
| The narrator, one of the story's characters, refers to himself as I throughout the piece. | First-person point of view |
| In literary terms what is a short story? | A brief work of prose fiction. |
| What is plot? | A series of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal. |
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