Quiz  /  Literary Terms (Part One) Quiz

  • 1. 
    What is the name given to a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters?

  • epistolary novel
  • picaresque novel
  • novel of manners
  • roman à clef

  • 2. 
    What term refers to the passage in a drama in which a character expresses thoughts or feelings aloud while alone on the stage or with the other actors keeping silent?

  • speech
  • stream of consciousness
  • oration
  • soliloquy

  • 3. 
    What is a tercet?

  • a novella
  • a novel in three parts
  • a poetic stanza
  • the third act of a play

  • 4. 
    What kind of rhyme occurs only in stressed final syllables?

  • slant rhyme
  • feminine rhyme
  • double rhyme
  • masculine rhyme

  • 5. 
    What term refers to the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it?

  • metempsychosis
  • onomatopoeia
  • periphrasis
  • anaphora

  • 6. 
    What form of novel typically relates the adventures of a rogue adventurer as he drifts from place to place in an effort to survive?

  • picaresque novel
  • epic
  • epistolary novel
  • sentimental novel

  • 7. 
    What 19th-century English poet is particularly well known for his use of dramatic monologue?

  • Robert Browning
  • Matthew Arnold
  • John Keats
  • William Wordsworth

  • 8. 
    What is the term for a song or poem to the bride and bridegroom at their wedding?

  • epithalamium
  • epinicion
  • qaṣīdah
  • prolegomenon

  • 9. 
    What is the term for a 17th-century Spanish play of upper-middle-class manners and intrigue?

  • cloak-and-sword drama
  • costumbrismo
  • comedy of manners
  • cantar de gesta
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