Literary Terms Quiz 11

the perspective from which a story is told

• narrator

• point of view

• first person

• third person

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, ideas, or events

• fiction

• nonfiction

• description

• diary

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

The speaker in a story is the _____.

• Protagonist
• Resolution
• Narrator
• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

• theme
• tone
• simile
• novella

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

This type of narrator is a character in the story. Using the pronoun, "I," the narrator reveals his or her own thoughts. This type of narrator may be unreliable.

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

• Third person limited narrator

• Omniscient narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the term for words that imitate the sound they represent?

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Wow, Hailie's race car zoomed past the finish line.

• zoomed
• car
• wow
• finish 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.

• pots
• clanging
• dishes
• awoke

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A(n) _______________ is how a group of people without written language pass down history, beliefs and traditions that are important to their culture and to future generations.

• personal narrative
• allegory
• oral tradition
• origin story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person

• essay

• biography

• memoir

• autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10