Literary Terms Quiz

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Instructor: Melissa Stevenson Winter 2001

Literary Terms Quiz

Section I:
Identify and define the terms illustrated in the passages below.

1. "all the clocks in the city / Began to whir and chime” (Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening”)

2. “to feel the daylight coming / like a relentless milkman up the stairs” (Rich, “Living in Sin”)

3. “When I see a couple of kids” (Larkin, “High Windows”)

4. “Eureka!”

5. ”the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer / And Jill goes down on her back” (Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening”)

Section II:
Identify and give an example of the terms defined below.

1. A figure of speech using exaggeration for emphasis.
2. Using words associated with one sense to describe another.
3. Where the actual meaning is different from and usually opposite to the literal meaning.
4. Humorous misuse of a word or phrase.
5. The repetition of the same consonant sound.

--MarthineSatris 17:45, 8 August 2007 (PDT)