Literary Terms Review

What is the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work?

• plot

• exposition

• characterization

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What would we call a character who is multi-dimensional like a real human.

• round

• dynamic

• protagonist

• first-person narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

Who is the hero or central character of a literary work?

• the "good guy"

• antagonist

• villain

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the second section of the typical plot in which the main character begins to experience the story’s main conflict?

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• denouement

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is internal conflict?

• man versus man

• man versus self

• man versus nature

• man versus society

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What type of character undergoes a change from the beginning of the story to the end?

• dynamic

• flat

• static

• round

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A character who undergoes no change from the beginning to the end of a story is what type?

• dynamic

• static

• round

• flat

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What would we call a character who has only one defining trait

• minor character

• antagonist

• static

• flat

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Plot is the word that we use to describe all of the action of the story, but what's the word that we use to describe the underlying message the author wants the reader to take away?

• genre

• theme

• conflict

• fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A hint in a story that tells the reader what might happen next

• context clue

• foreshadowing

• dialect

• cite evidence