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A230 Literature Exam Preparation Quiz
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1What is an aside?
- AWhere a character makes a remark that the audience can hear but no other characters can.
- BWhere a character speaks their thoughts or emotions aloud alone onstage.
- CThe opening lines of a scene.
2What is blank verse?
- ALines with no metre or rhythmical pattern.
- BLines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
- CAnother name for prose.
3What is denouement?
- AThe opposing force to a narrative's protagonist.
- BThe final resolution of a play, novel or other narrative.
- CThe beginning of a play where characters or information is introduced.
4What is dramatic irony?
- AWhere an audience or reader has information that a character is ignorant of.
- BWhen a character very obviously means the exact opposite to what they say.
- CWhen a play makes a reference to the real world outside the story.
5What is exposition?
- AThe opening section of a play where characters are introduced and essential information is imparted to the audience.
- BThe event or character that the whole of the plot depends upon.
- CThe final section of a play or other narrative where all the plot points are resolved.
6What is hyperbole?
- AWhen a text foreshadows a future event.
- BExtravagant overstatement.
- CThe last speech of a dying character in a drama.
7What is proleptic irony?
- AWhen the audience has information that characters are ignorant of.
- BThe foreshadowing of an event that will occur later in a play or other text.
- CWhen characters misunderstand each other and cause negative consequences.
8What is a register?
- AThe list of characters at the start of a published play text.
- BThe type or style of language/vocabulary associated with a specific context.
- CThe overall metrical pattern of a poem.
9What is a soliloquy?
- AThe two rhyming lines at the end of a scene in a play text.
- BA scene in a play where two characters converse in a back and forth dialogue.
- CA speech by a character alone onstage where he/she gives voice to emotions or thoughts.
10What is verbal irony?
- AThe sarcastic tone of voice used by an actor in a play or film.
- BWhere the actual meaning of a text is different to the apparent meaning.
- CWhen a text foreshadows future events.
11What is a focaliser?
- AThe character through whose perspective or perceptions the narrative is described.
- BPhrases such as 'he said' or 'Daniel whispered' that signal who has spoken in a prose text.
- CThe audience or reader of a literary text.
12What is non-diegetic sound?
- ARepeated vowel sounds across a section of literary text.
- BThe sound effects of a film. For example: doors shutting, background people talking etc.
- CSound that is external to the story world of a film.
13What is mise-en-scène?
- AThe filmed events of a film such as costume, set design or character movement.
- BA genre of French poetry.
- CWhen the weather/climate of a literary text reflects the mood of a character.
14What is diegetic sound?
- ASound that is external to the story world of a film.
- BSound that is inside the story world of a film.
- CThe way iambic pentameter sounds when spoken out loud.
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