Review: 1st Semester Exam

What is the term for the time and place of a story?

• Plot

• Setting

• Theme

• Climax

Which term describes when the author tells you explicitly what a character is like?

• Indirect characterization

• Direct characterization

• Exposition

• Resolution

What is the standpoint from which a story is told?

• Tone

• Theme

• Point of view

• Plot

What is the anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story?

• Climax

• Suspense

• Rising action

• Falling action

What is a short autobiographical story that focuses on one or few events?

• Memoir

• Fairytale

• Science fiction

• Realistic fiction

What is a group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning?

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Theme

• Tone

Which genre is set in the modern present with human characters?

• Science fiction

• Realistic fiction

• Fairytale

• Memoir

What is the point of view in which the narrator is a person in the story?

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

• First person

• Second person

What is the attitude of the writer or speaker called?

• Tone

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

Which genre is set in the future and based on the impact of real, potential, or imagined technology?

• Realistic fiction

• Fairytale

• Science fiction

• Memoir