Literary Terms for Exam

What is a simile?

• A comparison that uses like, as, or than.

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• The narrator knows everything about all characters.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses like, as, or than.

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• The narrator knows everything about all characters.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• A) A comparison that uses like, as, or than.

• B) A comparison that does not use like, as, or than.

• C) Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• D) The narrator knows everything about all characters.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which point of view uses 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we'?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view uses 'you', 'your'?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view uses 'he', 'she', 'it', 'they'?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does an omniscient narrator know?

• Only their own thoughts

• Everything about all characters

• Nothing about the characters

• Only one perspective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is an objective narrator?

• Knows everything about all characters

• Tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings

• Limited to one perspective

• Uses 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we'

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is situational irony?

• When something happens that is opposite of what we would expect to happen

• When someone says the opposite of what they mean

• When we know something the characters do not

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is verbal irony?

• When something happens that is opposite of what we would expect to happen

• When someone says the opposite of what they mean

• When we know something the characters do not

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A