Literary Terms

Literary Terms

8th Grade Lit

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

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

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

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

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