Literary Terms Test

Time and place of a story

• setting

• personification

• plot

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

Struggle between two opposing forces, normally the protagonist and antagonist

• dialect

• metaphor

• conflict

• plot

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

A literary device that is used when an author mentions some other work (ex. Bible, Greek mythology)

• Allusion

• Point of view

• Irony

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

Comparison of two very different things not using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A device that moves an audience from the present moment to a scene in the past.

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Protagonist

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The difference between what might be expected to happen and what actually occurs

• Allusion

• Characterization

• Irony

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Giving an animal or object human characteristics.

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbol

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Any particular form of language spoken by a group of people.

• Protagonist

• Dialect

• Irony

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective)

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Symbol

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Gives the audience hints or signs about the future

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Plot

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5