Literary Terms

Literary Terms

8th Grade Lit

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What is an antagonist?

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What is a character?

• A struggle between two forces

• The vantage point, or perspective, from which a story is told

• The feeling a reader gets when they read a story

• An imaginary person or animal who takes part in the action of the story

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What is characterization?

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What is conflict in a story?

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that moves that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way

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What is a flashback?

• An interruption to the sequence of events in a story

• Any prose or story that tells an imaginary or made up story

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What is foreshadowing?

Multiple Choice

What is a Novel?

• A long work of fiction that often has involved plots, many characters, and numerous settings

• The vantage point, or perspective, from which a story is told

• The time, place, and environment in which the events of a literary work take place

• The act of presenting hints to events that will occur later in a story

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What is "mood" in a story

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What is chronological order?

• The act of creating or describing a character

• An organizational plan in which events are presented in the order in which they occur

• Fiction

• The main character in a story

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What is "plot"?

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What is "point of view"?

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Who is the protagonist in a story?

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What is the setting in a story?

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work of fiction that usually presents a single plot, one or two main characters, and one important setting.

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What is fiction?

• Any work of prose that tells an invented or imaginary story

• An autobiography

• The character playing the central role in a literary work

• The act of creating a character

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What is the theme in a story?