Literary Terms Pre-Test
Authored by AMANDA POLZIN
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a character's personality to the reader.
Setting
Characterization
Personalization
Flashback
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
The struggle occurring within the character's mind.
Tags
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
An atmosphere created by a writer's word choice and the details selected; the emotions of a scene; how it makes the reader feel.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 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.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which word has the most positive connotation?
grizzled
mature
senile
old
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.L.9-10.5B
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
writing that compares to unlike things but does not use like or as
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
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