Literary Terms

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English

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9th - 10th Grade

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Medium

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CCSS

RL.11-12.3, L.9-10.6, RI.9-10.4

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.

mood

external conflict

setting

plot

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.

Setting

Characterization

Personalization

Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen.

irony

flashback

foreshadowing

theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events.

flashback

foreshadowing

flashshadowing

foreback

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

writing that uses like or as to compare two unlike things

simile

personification

compare/contrast

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

the moment in the story when the action reaches its greatest conflict

climax

rising action

falling action

description

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

the perspective from which the story is told. Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

climax

point of view

description

opinion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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