Literary Term Mini Test

1. ...laughed again as he had laughed over his father's taste of brandy.

Dr. MacPhail looked at him for a moment, then turned his attention once more to the straps.

"When you laugh like that," he remarked in a tone of scientific detachment, "your face becomes curiously ugly."

Taken aback, Will tried to cover his embarrassment with a piece of facetiousness. "It's always ugly," he said.

"On the contrary, in a Baudelairean sort of way it's rather beautiful. Except when you choose to make noises like a hyena. Why do you make those noises" Island by Aldous Huxley

The passage has an example of _________________.

2. It's as familiar as an old face in an old photograph as tho I'm gone a million years from all that sun shaded brush on rocks and that heartless blue of the sea washing white on yellow sand...

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

This passage has an example of a _______________.

3. "And now she is dead. My God! my God! Harry, what shall I do? You don't know the danger I am in, and there is nothing to keep me straight. She would have done that for me. She had no right to kill herself. It was selfish of her."

"My dear Dorian," answered Lord Henry, "If you had married this guy you would have been wretched. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Lord Henry serves as a _________ to Dorian Gray, the main character of the novel.

4. Lying there in bed, I tried to think back when I first noticed it. I think it was once when we were still living in the village on the Columbia. It was summer...

...and I'm about ten years old and I'm out in front of the shake sprinkling salt on salmon for the racks behind the house.. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The narrator begins to tell a story, it is a _________________.

5. He leaned close to him and touched his forehead with his lips. As he did this, something wonderful happened to him. While he was still dwelling on Siddhartha's strange words, while he strove in vain to dispel the conception of time, to imagine Nirvana and Sansara as one, while even a certain contempt for his friend's words conflicted with a tremendous love and esteem for him, this happened to him.

He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha. Instead he saw other faces, many faces, a long serious a continuous stream of faces- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The character is having a/an ____________.