Literary Terms 1

Select examples of foreshadowing from the stories we read.

• Tessie was late for the lottery.

• Braling tells Smith, "I've been home all evening."

• The old black box is broken and in need of repair.

• Little boys pile up rocks and guard them.

• Smith reminds Braling that he was forced into marriage.

Put these parts of a short story in the correct order.

• Setting, conflict, theme, rising action, resolution

• Exposition, conflict, rising action, denouement, climax

• Setting, denouement, conflict, climax, rising theme, resolution

• Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, resolution, denouement

Check all that are part of a story's setting.

• Customs and manners

• Time period

• Dialect

• Conflict

In the ________, the author lays out the specifics of the story (what's going on).

• denouement

• exposition

• conflict

• theme

Braling is an example of a(n) ____________.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• foil

• characterization

Which two elements are most strongly linked?

• setting and characterization

• denoument and exposition

• conflict and resolution

• protagonist and foil

The use of humor, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose people's vices is called ________.

• satire

• irony

• idiom

• symbolism

The attitude an author brings to a work is the _______, while the emotion created in the reader is the ______.

• outer conflict, inner conflict

• sarcasm, satire

• tone, mood

• mood, tone

Examples of ___________ are horror, mystery, biography, romance, poetry, and historical fiction.

• irony

• genre

• exposition

• narrative

Select all that are tools of indirect characterization.

• how a character speaks

• what an author says about a character

• other characters' reactions to a character

• a chacter's actions