Unit 1 - Literary Terms Test Review

A category or type of literature, such as short story, folk tale, poem, novel, or play. 
Which word below has this definition?  

• Genre
• Stanza 
• Narrative 
• Sensory details 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A type of writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events in an incident.
Which word below has this definition? 

• Sensory details 
• Narrative 
• Denotation 
• Stanza 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Words or information that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell).
Which word below has this definition? 

• Characterization 
• Sensory details 
• Narrative 
• Myth 

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The methods a writer uses to develop characters; for example, through description, actions, and dialogue.
Which word below has this definition? 

• Characterization
• Narrative 
• Myth
• Stanza 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The purpose of a Memoir is to explain something important  in your life or yourself.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Why does someone write a memoir?

• To tell their whole life story
• To tell how they were feeling when they experienced a certain event
• To tell retell a story someone told them

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Which part of the plot
introduces the characters?

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which part of the plot is
the most intense?

• falling action
• exposition
• exposition
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Choose the two words that best complete the sentence.
During the exposition, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.

• characters, setting 
• characters, falling action 
• climax, conflict 
• conflict, resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9