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Test your knowledge of literary periods, poetic forms, and narrative techniques with our engaging quiz. Designed for students, teachers, and literary enthusiasts alike, this quiz will challenge your understanding of key concepts in Literary Studies.

23 thought-provoking questions
Multiple choice format
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23 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ReadingWord312

Literary periods are historically given

True

False

Canons represent literary ‘quality’ in a certain lietrary period

True

False

The scheme of the English (Shakespearean) sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg

True

False

The sonnet is composed of how many lines?

Metre is the natural flow of the poem in oral speech, read for emphasis.

True

False

Rhythm is the natural flow of the poem in oral speech, read for emphasis

True

False

The meter (metre) of the word "poem" is...

Iamb (unstressed – stressed)

Trochee (stressed – unstressed)

Anapest (two unstressed – stressed)

Dactyl (stressed – two unstressed)

The line " And they shall fetch thee juwels from the deep" is iambic

True

False

Couplets, alternate rhyme, envelope pattern and tail rhyme belong to the category of end rhymes

True

False

The envelope pattern sceme is...

Abab

Aabb

Abba

Abcabc

What phonological figure is used in "The Terrible Tiger tore the towel"

Ellipsis

Alliteration

Assonance

Parallelism

What rethorical device is used in " hard as a rock"?

Metaphor

Similie

Personification

Oxymoron

What rethorical device is used in " rockhard"?

Metaphor

Similie

Personification

Oxymoron

In Drama, primary text include everything that is heard in performances

True

False

A closet drama is a play that is primarily designed to be read.

True

False

An absolute drama is a play that makes use of an narrator or teller figure

True

False

The indoor theatres in London around 1600 were for the aristocracy and upper classes only

True

False

Hermeneutic theorie argues that there is only one meaning/truth of a text

True

False

Homodiegetic text -> usally third person narrator

True

False

Heterodiegetic text --> usually third person narrator

True

False

Overt narrators tend to narrate in ‘neutral’ style, to be indistinctive in terms of gender, class, race, etc.,they tend to simply let the story unfold

True

False

"discourse-now" and "story-now" are the englisch equivalent to Erzählzeit und erzählte Zeit

True

False

The focaliser is the agent whose point of view orients the narrative text

True

False

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