12th Grade Literary Elements and Style Pretest

Directions: Choose the correct answer.

s1. Plot is ________

• Events that make up a story

• The turning point of story

• setting and characters

• the solution to the problem

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Climax is...

• Events that make up a story

• setting and characters

• The turning point of story

• the solution to the problem

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

This is considered

as the author’s message to the readers.

• Point of View

• Theme

• Character

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The time and location in which the story takes place.

• character

• plot

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

It is the main character or principal character or group of characters in a story.

• round character

• antihero

• protagonist

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A person or entity who takes part in the action of the story or other

literary work.

• narrator

• character

• exposition

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This is the struggle between two people or things in a short story

• climax

• theme

• conlict

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The source of conflict for the main character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Complicaton

• Style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.

• Foreshadowing

• Theme

• Style

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.

• Irony

• Plot

• Foreshadowing

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3