INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE TEST

NAME:

POINTS:

GRADE:

1. Explain the following terms:

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EXAMPLE:

amour courtois - courtly love, a topic of medieval romances and other literary genres, which involves adventures of a chivalry knight and his platonic love to the lady of his heart

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2. Provide the literary terms explained below:

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EXAMPLE: a topic of medieval romances and other literary genres, which involves adventures of a chivalry knight and his platonic love to the lady of his heart	amour courtois/ courtly love
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3. Give an example (author and title) of each genre mentioned below:

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GENRE	AUTHOR	TITLE
tragedy	William Shakespeare	“Hamlet”

4. Find the given features of literary style in the following fragments:

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EXAMPLE:

0. ”I saw pale kings, and princes too,
    Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cry'd--"La belle Dame sans merci
    Hath thee in thrall!" “

FIND TWO EPITHETS AND A RHYME: pale king, pale warriors; all-thrall___________________________________

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FIND _______________________________________________________________________________________

2.

FIND _______________________________________________________________________________________

3.

FIND _______________________________________________________________________________________

4.

FIND _______________________________________________________________________________________

5.

FIND _______________________________________________________________________________________

5. Circle the correct answer a, b, c, or d:

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EXAMPLE: “I wondered lonely as a cloud” is an example of:

a. metaphore

b. similie

c. synechdoche

d. iamb

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a.	b.	c.	d.
6. Answer the following open questions:				15

EXAMPLE:

0. Enumerate three types of novels (3)

1. ___epistolary novel______________________________________

2. ___Bildungsroman______________________________________

3. ___science-fiction novel___________________________________

7. Describe a chosen literary theory:

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