WorksheetsLiterary Terms
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.
a)
mood
b)
external conflict
c)
setting
d)
plot
2.
Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.
a)
Setting
b)
Characterization
c)
Personalization
d)
Flashback
3.
Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen.
a)
irony
b)
flashback
c)
foreshadowing
d)
theme
4.
When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events.
a)
flashback
b)
foreshadowing
c)
flashshadowing
d)
foreback
5.
writing that uses like or as to compare two unlike things
a)
simile
b)
personification
c)
compare/contrast
d)
alliteration
6.
the moment in the story when the action reaches its greatest conflict
a)
climax
b)
rising action
c)
falling action
d)
description
7.
the perspective from which the story is told. Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.
a)
climax
b)
point of view
c)
description
d)
opinion
8.
the arrangements of events in a story
a)
climax
b)
point of view
c)
plot
d)
narrative
9.
writing that compares to unlike things but does not use like or as
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration
c)
resolution
d)
character development
10.
writing in which an inanimate object or an abstract idea is given human characteristics
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
setting
d)
theme
11.
can be verbal, situational, or dramatic and has the result of the meaning, situation or action being one thing but meaning something different.
a)
satire
b)
metaphor
c)
parody
d)
irony
12.
how the writer feels about his subject that comes through based upon the types of words chosen.
a)
tone
b)
symbol
c)
theme
d)
satire
13.
how the reader feels about the story.
a)
theme
b)
allusion
c)
mood
d)
climax
14.
an intentional reference to another literary work or piece of art that the reader should understand in order to make connections.
a)
climax
b)
allusion
c)
subplot
d)
hyperbole
15.
a word that describes words that represent sounds.
a)
setting
b)
onomatopeoia
c)
symbol
d)
genre
16.
a writer’s vivid description that help readers visualize.
a)
irony
b)
imagery
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
17.
A universal life lesson about life or human nature. The message of the story.
a)
Plot
b)
Summary
c)
Central Idea
d)
Theme
18.
A statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless true.
a)
Monologue
b)
Paradox
c)
Foil
d)
Dialogue
19.
An archetype is:
a)
A basic plot, character, symbol, or idea that recurs in the literature of many cultures
b)
A dynamic character that plays a major role in many different stories
c)
A tradition of passing down stories by word-of-mouth
d)
The main character of a work of literature
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