Romeo Test

Question 0

Simile

Answer 0

Comparison using like or as

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Comparison without using like or as

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

Question 3

Situational Irony

Answer 3

Unexpected occurs

Question 4

Dramatic Irony

Answer 4

When the audience knows something a character does not

Question 5

Verbal irony

Answer 5

Saying one thing but meaning another

Question 6

Motif

Answer 6

An object or idea that repeats itself

Question 7

Foreshadowing

Answer 7

An event that leads up to a bigger event in a story

Question 8

Rhetorical question

Answer 8

A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point rather then answer

Question 9

Symbol

Answer 9

Significant item that stands for something

Question 10

Tone

Answer 10

Attitude towards the audience that an author conveys

Question 11

Mood

Answer 11

Atmosphere that evokes emotion

Question 12

Setting

Answer 12

Time and place where a story takes place

Question 13

Foil

Answer 13

A character who is opposite of another character in at least one way

Question 14

Theme

Answer 14

Central topic a text creates

Question 15

Soliloquy

Answer 15

A longer speech in which a character utters thoughts aloud

Question 16

Dialogue

Answer 16

Conversation between two or more characters

Question 17

Aside

Answer 17

A short remark spoken by one character to another ( or the audience) that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear

Question 18

Pun

Answer 18

A play on words

Include words that sound the same but that have different meanings

Question 19

Comic relief

Answer 19

Humor or humorous scene that appears immediately before or immediately after a serious scene or set of lines

Question 20

Apostrophe

Answer 20

A figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea

Question 21

Antithesis

Answer 21

Two words placed side by side of close by each other that are opposite

Question 22

Oxymoron

Answer 22

Two placed side by side that seem to be contradictory

Question 23

Exposition

Answer 23

Start of the story introduces readers to setting and or characters

Question 24

Inciting incident

Answer 24

The point where the conflict of the story is revealed

Question 25

Rising action

Answer 25

Events leading to the climax

Question 26

Climax

Answer 26

Most exciting part in a story, point of no return

Question 27

Falling action

Answer 27

Events after climax

Question 28

Resolution

Answer 28

A solution to the problem is reached

Question 29

Denouement

Answer 29

The ending

Question 30

Static character

Answer 30

A character who undergoes little or no change

Question 31

Dynamic character

Answer 31

Character who goes through change

Question 32

Round character

Answer 32

Character we know a lot about

Question 33

Flat character

Answer 33

Character we do not know a lot about

Question 34

Allusion

Answer 34

A reference to another literary work or art

Question 35

Footnote

Answer 35

Information written at the bottom of a text meant to guide the reader