2nd Semester LA Exam Matching Section

What is plot?

• A literary device that compares two unlike things using the words

  like or as

• The sequence of events that make up a story or a novel

• A universal truth about life revealed in literature; the author’s message or moral

What is the exposition of a story?

• A character struggles with an outside force, such as another character or something in nature (person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature)

• Words or information that appeal to the five senses

• Events that give the reader background information needed to understand the story (including setting and major characters)

What is internal conflict?

• The character struggles with his or her own needs, desires, or emotions (person vs. self)

• A character struggles with an outside force, such as another character or something in nature (person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature)

• Perspective from which the story or poem is told

What is external conflict?

• The character struggles with his or her own needs, desires, or emotions (person vs. self)

• A character struggles with an outside force, such as another character or something in nature (person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature)

• Perspective from which the story or poem is told

What is characterization?

• Methods a writer uses to develop a character either directly or indirectly.

• Perspective from which the story or poem is told

• A literary device that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

What is point of view?

• A universal truth about life revealed in literature; the author’s message or moral

• The sequence of events that make up a story or a novel

• Perspective from which the story or poem is told

What is theme?

• A universal truth about life revealed in literature; the author’s message or moral

• Refers to the literal meaning of a word; the basic dictionary definition of a word

• A secondary plot that occurs along with the main plot

What is figurative language?

• A universal truth about life revealed in literature; the author’s message or moral

• Words or information that appeal to the five senses

• Words or phrases that depart from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.

What is a simile?

• A literary device that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using the words like or as; a direct comparison

• Giving human qualities to something that is not human.

What is a metaphor?

• A literary device that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using the words like or as; a direct comparison

• Giving human qualities to something that is not human.