Literary Terms and Conflict

What is the central idea or purpose of a literary work called?

• Simile

• Theme

• Metaphor

• Narrative

What term describes comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Connotation

• Denotation

What is the literal meaning of a word known as?

• A) Connotation

• B) Denotation

• C) Theme

• D) Conflict

What is a struggle between forces called?

• Conflict

• Narrative

• Simile

• Metaphor

When characters struggle with an outside force such as another character or something in nature, what is it called?

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Narrative

• Theme

What is it called when a character struggles with his or her own needs?

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Metaphor

• Simile

What is the suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word?

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Theme

• Conflict

What is language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true?

• Figurative Language

• Narrative

• Simile

• Metaphor

What is the perspective from which a story is told?

• Point of View

• Theme

• Conflict

• Denotation

What is a story based on one's own life and told in the first person called?

• Simile

• Narrative

• Metaphor

• Conflict