15 Key Literary Terms Overview

15 Key Literary Terms Overview

9th - 12th Grade

22 Qs

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15 Key Literary Terms Overview

15 Key Literary Terms Overview

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English

9th - 12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.11-12.3, RL.8.3, L.11-12.6

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture.

Mood

Theme

Personification

Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

Theme

Symbolism

Connotation

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A person, place, object, or action that stands for something beyond itself.

Mood

Symbolism

Diction

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A comparison between two things that have something in common without using like or as.

Simile

Diction

Idiom

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

main character who carries the action forward; in almost every scene (hero)
1st person point of view
antagonist
protagonist
3rd person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

character or force who opposes the protagonist (villain)
indirect characterization
direct characterization
antagonist
protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the narrator or a character in the story tells us exactly what we need to know about a character
anecdote
direct characterization
indirect characterization
inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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