"Dragon,Dragon" by John Gardner

Identify the literary terms that describes the methods a writer uses to develop the personality of a character.

• Repetition

• Setting

• Foreshadowing

• Characterization

Identify the literary term that means the use of clues by an author to prepare readers for events that will happen in a narrative.

• foreshadowing

• irony

• simile

• characterization

What literary term describes a contrast between what is said or done and what is expected?

• foreshadowing

• irony

• simile

• repetition

What literary term describes the recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing?

• characterization

• setting

• simile

• repetition

What literary term describes the time and place in which the events of a short story, novel, or drama occur?

• irony

• foreshadowing

• setting

• characterization

What literary term is used to describe a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things?

• repetition

• characterization

• irony

• simile

What literary term best describes this passage from the story: "What?" cried the dragon, "you? you? Murder me?"

• simile

• repetition

• irony

• setting

What literary term best describes the following passage: "the youngest son began to tremble so violently that his armor rattled like a house caving in."

• repetition

• simile

• foreshadowing

• irony

What literary term is best described in the following passage: "he stole spark plugs out of people's cars and put firecrackers in people's cigars."

• simile comparing the dragon to a prankster

• repetition showing the dragon doing several things

• characterization showing the personality of the dragon

• setting showing the location of the fairy tale

What literary term best describes this passage: "The king's knights were all cowards who hid under their beds whenever the dragon came in sight."

• setting

• irony

• repetition

• simile