Literary Terms Pre-Test

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

• Setting

• Characterization

• Personalization

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

The struggle occurring within the character's mind.

• Internal Conflict
• External Conlict
• Mind Conflict
• Decision Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An atmosphere created by a writer's word choice and the details selected; the emotions of a scene; how it makes the reader feel.

• tone
• monotone
• mood
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

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.9-10.5

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

• flashback
• foreshadowing
• flashshadowing
• foreback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

Which word has the most positive connotation?

• grizzled

• mature

• senile

• old

writing that compares to unlike things but does not use like or as

• metaphor
• alliteration
• resolution
• character development

writing in which an inanimate object or an abstract idea is given human characteristics

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

how the problem of the story is solved

• conflict
• resolution
• plot 
• theme

A message about life and/or humanity that the author wishes to communicate

• main idea

• moral

• theme

• topic