WorksheetsLiterary Elements Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The story's central problem
a)
prediction
b)
plot
c)
point of view
d)
conflict
2.
The most intense or exciting part of a story.
a)
climax
b)
exposition
c)
resolution
d)
theme
3.
You relate the text to something in your own personal life or someone you know.
a)
text to world
b)
text to self
c)
text to text/media
d)
text to friend
4.
Events that build up to the climax of a story.
a)
falling action
b)
rising action
c)
resolution
d)
exposition
5.
Restate the main points of the text in YOUR OWN WORDS.
a)
inferences
b)
plot
c)
resolution
d)
summary
6.
The message, lesson, or moral you get from the story.
a)
theme
b)
main idea
c)
characterization
d)
point of view
7.
Connecting the text to a current event or historical event.
a)
text to world
b)
text to self
c)
text to friend
d)
text to text/media
8.
The final outcome of the story, usually where the conflict is settled (or not settled).
a)
exposition
b)
resolution
c)
climax
d)
rising action
9.
Using the details in the text to make meaning out of what is not clearly stated.
a)
drawing conclusions
b)
conflict
c)
plot
d)
main idea
10.
The reason that something is happening.
a)
cause
b)
effect
c)
plot
d)
climax
11.
The result of the cause.
a)
theme
b)
plot
c)
point of view
d)
effect
12.
An educated guess of what will happen next in a story based on clues from the story.
a)
cause
b)
characterization
c)
making connections
d)
prediction
13.
The perspective of the story or passage.
a)
characterization
b)
point of view
c)
main idea
d)
cause
14.
A connection from what you are reading to something that you read in the past.
a)
text to self
b)
text to world
c)
text to text/media
d)
text to friend
15.
Connecting background information to what you are currently reading.
a)
making connections
b)
predicting
c)
main idea
d)
theme
16.
What the story is mostly about.
a)
theme
b)
main idea
c)
cause
d)
effect
17.
The story set up including the setting and introducing characters.
a)
resolution
b)
exposition
c)
climax
d)
rising action
18.
These events set up the ending of the story and come after the climax.
a)
exposition
b)
rising action
c)
falling action
d)
cause
19.
A struggle within a character's mind
a)
external conflict
b)
internal conflict
c)
point of view
d)
main idea
20.
The author tells the audience directly about the character's personality.
a)
direct characterization
b)
indirect characterization
c)
summary
d)
rising action
21.
A struggle in a story with another character or outside of the character's thoughts.
a)
internal conflict
b)
plot
c)
external conflict
d)
climax
22.
Assumptions about something that is NOT stated in the text, sometimes using prior knowledge.
a)
inference
b)
resolution
c)
conflict
d)
exposition
23.
The beginning, middle, and end of a story.
a)
exposition
b)
making connections
c)
main idea
d)
plot
24.
The author tells about the character through what they say, think, their actions, looks, and effect on others.
a)
indirect characterization
b)
main idea
c)
prediction
d)
point of view
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