Grade 9 Literary Terminology Review

In literature, imagery refers to...

• Descriptive language.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

• Descriptions of pictures.

• Visual details.

Figurative language refers to...

• Language that describes something in a non-literal way.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

• Individual word choice.

"Inciting incident" refers to...

• The moment in a story right before the climax.

• The moment in a story right after the climax.

• The event in a story that kicks off the main conflict.

• The event in a story that concludes the main conflict.

"Exposition" refers to...

• The part of a story that occurs before (or around) the inciting incident where the author provides important, scene-setting information.

• The part of a story that occurs after the climax, where the author provides important, scene-setting information.

• The first half of a story.

• Everything that happens after the climax of a story.

The series of events that raise the tension in the story and lead from the inciting incident to the climax.

• Inciting incident

• Accidental incident

• Rising action

• Falling action

The series of events that occur between the climax and the end of the text and lower the tension in the story.

• Falling action

• Rising action

• Concluding incident

• Tension

The moment of highest tension in a text, in which the protagonist faces their central conflict.

Denotation is a word's ____________.

• Literal, dictionary definition

• Emotional meaning

• synonym

• antonym

The repetition of grammatical/syntactical elements in writing and speaking.

• Diction

• Parallelism

• Imagery

• Figurative language

Figurative exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Parabole

• Personification

• Metaphor