Literary Terms

Literary Terms

9th - 11th Grade

17 Qs

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Literary Terms

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Assessment

Quiz

English

9th - 11th Grade

Easy

CCSS
RL.8.3, RL.9-10.5, L.11-12.6

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Created by

Margaret Anderson

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17 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Generally provides the time and place of a specific scene or chapter, the entire story, a play or a narrative poem. 
Setting 
Conflict 
Motif 
Dialect 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals. 
Theme 
Flashback 
Setting 
Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happen at an earlier time. 
Flashback 
Setting 
Irony 
Allusion 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing. 
Metaphor
Mood
Hyperbole 
Point of View 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Repetition of consonant sounds generally at the beginning of words, or, within neighboring words in a sentence.  
Alliteration 
Dramatic Irony 
Literary Elements 
Soliloquy 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A conversation between two or more characters. 
Dialogue 
Plot 
Setting 
Idiom 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When a word or phrase of a line is repeated within the text; makes the reader consciously aware of a point being made by the author or character. 
Repetition 
Symbol/Symbolism 
Imagery 
Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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