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WorksheetsLiterary Strategies
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a)
symbolism
b)
alliteration
c)
irony
d)
tone
2.
Jimmy's sneakers are fresh!
a)
figurative language
b)
simile
c)
repetition
d)
soliloquy
3.
The general idea or insight about life that literature reveals.
a)
theme
b)
metaphor
c)
setting
d)
point of view
4.
It's freezing in here!
a)
hyperbole
b)
flashback
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
5.
a)
simile
b)
oxymoron
c)
symbolism
d)
dialect
6.
The way an author creates and reveals a character.
a)
characterization
b)
plot
c)
setting
d)
conflict
7.
Brad and Benny barked boorishly because Bill bought books.
a)
alliteration
b)
hyperbole
c)
allusion
d)
personification
8.
A character who changes as a result of the events of the story, and is essentially a different person at the end of the story.
a)
dynamic
b)
influential
c)
moral
d)
kind
9.
The sequence of events that happen in a story, and the relationship between these events.
a)
plot
b)
setting
c)
foreshadowing
d)
conflict
10.
Which of these would not refer to setting?
a)
lighting on a stage
b)
the late 19th century
c)
London, England
d)
the countryside
11.
a)
pun
b)
conflict
c)
simile
d)
foreshadowing
12.
The author’s style of writing, determined by specific choices of words. It is not merely a writer's choice of words, but words that help create/add to an author’s tone, attitude, dialect, and style of writing.
a)
diction
b)
conflict
c)
imagery
d)
suggestive
13.
"fantabulous"
a)
portmanteau
b)
paradox
c)
allegory
d)
symbolism
14.
An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
a)
flashback
b)
conflict
c)
imagery
d)
allusion
15.
Also known as the atmosphere of a work; it might be scary, happy, sad, romantic, nostalgic, exciting, etc.
a)
mood
b)
tone
c)
imagery
d)
personification
16.
a)
idiom
b)
imagery
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
17.
Language used to make a blunt or unpleasant truth seem less harsh. For example, saying someone "passed away" instead of "died."
a)
euphemism
b)
allusion
c)
onomotopoeia
d)
personification
18.
Lightning danced all night across the sky.
a)
personification
b)
simile
c)
irony
d)
conflict
19.
The main character in a literary work.
a)
protagonist
b)
antagonist
c)
rectagonist
d)
miltagonist
20.
a)
connotation
b)
denotation
c)
markeration
d)
consternation
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