Literary Terms Quiz 11

the perspective from which a story is told

• narrator

• point of view

• first person

• third person

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

• fiction

• nonfiction

• description

• diary

The speaker in a story is the _____.

• Protagonist
• Resolution
• Narrator
• Antagonist

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

• theme
• tone
• simile
• novella

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

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

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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

• zoomed
• car
• wow
• finish 

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

• pots
• clanging
• dishes
• awoke

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

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

• essay

• biography

• memoir

• autobiography