Quiz  /  Literary Terms (Part Three) Quiz

  • 1. 
    What rhetorical mannerism did John Lyly introduce in English literature?

  • euphuism
  • allegory
  • satire
  • irony

  • 2. 
    What figure of speech involves a comparison between two unlike entities that is explicitly indicated by the word like or as?

  • euphemism
  • metonymy
  • metaphor
  • simile

  • 3. 
    What term refers to the figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object?

  • metonymy
  • litotes
  • personification
  • abstraction

  • 4. 
    What kind of word is composed of parts of two or more words?

  • portmanteau word
  • nonce word
  • hybrid
  • anagram

  • 5. 
    What term refers to a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit?

  • couplet
  • paragraph
  • verse
  • stanza

  • 6. 
    Which writer is regarded as the chief precursor of realism in the novel?

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mark Twain
  • HonorĂ© de Balzac
  • Marcel Proust
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