Literary Terms Quiz 5

What is historical and cultural context?

• the message that a writer of a story or novel wants readers to understand

• the time, place, and social conditions that influenced a work of literature

• a story of a person's life, written by that person

• a way to figure out if the details in a story or novel are true

When you look up a word in the dictionary, you find its...

• connotation

• denotation

• acronym

• homonym

Which is a feature in descriptive writing?

• Compare/Contrast

• Sensory details

• Argument

• Literal Pictures

What is Description???

•  Things that go in order.
• Something that represents or describes something in the text.
• I DO NOT KNOW??
• The relationship between 2 events.

A particular way of speaking that is unique to a social class or region

• dialect

• dialogue

• diction

• diagram

The words a character speaks in a text

(Fancy word for discussion)

• dialect

• dialogue

• diction

• diagram

What word (s) is an example of dialect in this sentence?

I reckoned if she knew the truth, she wouldn't have taken the job.

• she wouldn't

• I reckoned

• have taken

• the job

Dialogue is

• a conversation between/amongst characters
• a verb
• when the narrator tells you what is happening in a story
• boring

What is the definition of an "internal" conflict?

• A hero in a story that saves many lives.
• A problem that a character has with other characters.
• A struggle between a character and a family member.
• An issue that a character faces within him/her self.

What is the definition of an "external" conflict?

• An issue between a character and an outside force.
• A problem within the exposition of a story.
• A struggle that a character has within him/her self.
• A problem caused by the protagonist.