Lit Terms #1 Review

The environment, time, or place in which an event or story takes place.

• mood

• external conflict

• setting

• plot

A universal life lesson about life or human nature. The message of the story.

• Plot

• Summary

• Central Idea

• Theme

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

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

The part of the story that is the "turning point" where the problem is about to be solved is called the...

• setting
• conflict
• climax
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which point of view uses pronouns like “I”, “we”, “my”?

• First Person
• Third Person Limited
• Third Person Omniscient
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What literary device makes the reader curious about what will happen next?

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Suspense
• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A Protagonist is the...

• Good Character
• Bad Character
• Stuck-up Character
• Not in a Story 

Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experience for the reader. 

• vividry
• pictorial images
• imagery
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words. 

• alliteration
• figurative language
• symbolic language
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3