Review

​Literary Terms

By Cherron Harrison

Multiple Choice

Character traits are adjectives that describe the qualities of a character.

A character’s traits are different from a character’s feelings. Characters’ feelings, or emotions, are a character’s emotional response to things that happen around them. Unlike character traits, feelings may come and go quickly.

Read the following passage from a story.

Mercy snorted. She should have known better than to challenge Victoria. Of all Mercy’s friends, Victoria talked loudest, ran fastest and took the most risks. She bragged about the time she convinced her older brothers to spend a weekend building her a fort. Mercy liked to call Victoria “Buster.” “Because you are always busting things up,” she laughed. Victoria wore the nickname with pride.

Based on the passage, which of the following is one of Victoria’s traits?

• forgetful

• confused

• bold

• shy

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What is personification?

• Figurative language that a writer uses to make NON-HUMAN objects, concepts, and animals act like people.

• Figurative language that a writer uses to create mental images in the reader's mind through descriptive details.

• Figurative language that compares two different things using the words "like" and "as".

• Figurative language that compares two different things through their similar qualities or traits.

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The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked by after the storm.

What is being personified?

• bowed down

• greeted us

• the bushes

• after the storm

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"Shake it like a Polaroid picture."

-Outkast

• Simile

• Metaphor

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"The sun was a toddler... refusing to go to bed. It was past eight thirty and still light."

-John Green

• Simile

• Metaphor

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"The ship sailed swiftly towards the shore" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Theme
• Metaphor
• Style
• Alliteration

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"The eerie silence was shattered by her scream." This is an example of ___________________________. 

• Theme
• Plot
• Rhyme
• Imagery

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"I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinoccho's." This is an example of an _____________. 

• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Hyperbole

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This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

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A character that has little or no change by the end of the book is a ____________________ character.

• Round

• Flat

• Static

• Dynamic

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A character that we know little about

• Round

• Flat

• Static

• Dynamic

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A character that does change by the end of the story is a_______________ character.

• Round

• Flat

• Static

• Dynamic

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A well developed, complex character is

• round

• flat

• static

• dynamic

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The "force" against the main character

• obstacle

• antagonist

• protagonist

• dynamic

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This is the main character, characterized by "goodness"

• obstacle

• antagonist

• dynamic

• protagonist

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This is someone or something that gets in the protagonist's way...

• protagonist

• ideals

• obstacles

• the hero

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Which of these can be an antagonist

• A person

• nature

• a group of people

• All of the above

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State whether the following is a run-on or a complete sentence.

Cats are lazy and they are fun to watch.

• Run-on

• Complete

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State whether the following is a run-on or a complete sentence.

Teenagers are normally talkative and sleepy, but they can be quite and energetic.

• Run-on

• Complete

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Like a true bear, the koala and the panda _____ stout bodies, short legs, round heads, and big paws.

• has

• have

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Either the students or their teacher _____ the materials.

• gets

• get

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My friends and I went to the skate park after school.

• Compound subject

• Compound predicate/verb

• Both

• Neither

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The city council met at six and voted on a new ordinance.

• Compound subject

• Compound predicate/verb

• Both

• Neither

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Define Denotation

• the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
• an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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Define Connotation

• the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
• an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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Mrs. Hennessy reports being short of breath.

• Subjective

• Objective

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Mrs. Hennessy is 4 foot 9.

• Subjective

• Objective

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MOOD is...

• The reader's feelings while reading the text

• The author's attitude or feelings

• The author's style of writing

• The reader's feelings before reading the text

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TONE is...

• The author's attitude or feelings

• The reader's feelings while reading the text

• The reader's feelings before reading the text

• The author's style of writing