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WorksheetsLiterary Terms FINAL review
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When an actor speaks his/her thoughts out loud to the audience; used to help the audience understand what an actor is thinking.
a)
Soliloquy
b)
Simile
c)
Plot
d)
Climax
2.
When the audience or reader knows something a character does not know.
a)
Dramatic Irony
b)
Connotation
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Repetition
3.
Conflicts that an individual has with his or her conscience.
a)
Person vs. Person
b)
Person vs. Self
c)
Personification
d)
Person vs. Society
4.
_______ is the method of narration/vantage point from which a story is told. A story is told in First Person, Third Person Objective, Third Person Limited, or Omniscient narration.
a)
Point of View
b)
Conflict
c)
Dialogue
d)
Connotation
5.
When the words at the end of two or more lines rhyme.
a)
End rhyme
b)
Rhyme
c)
Internal Rhyme
d)
Theme
6.
The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.
a)
Simile
b)
Theme
c)
Rhyme
d)
Tone
7.
The conflict a person encounters with the forces of their environment.
a)
Person Vs. Nature
b)
Person vs. Society
c)
Person vs. Self
d)
Person vs. Person
8.
The sequence of events in a story is the _______.
a)
Plot
b)
Idiom
c)
Tone
d)
Motif
9.
When something starts to happen in a story.
a)
Falling Action
b)
Connotation
c)
Rising Action
d)
Alliteration
10.
The attitude a writer/author has toward his or her subject matter.
a)
Plot
b)
Theme
c)
Tone
d)
Rhyme
11.
A person or an animal in a story, play or other literary work.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Character
c)
Dialect
d)
Static Character
12.
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.
a)
Irony
b)
Flashback
c)
Metaphor
d)
Foreshadowing
13.
A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like or as.
a)
Dialect
b)
Idiom
c)
Imagery
d)
Simile
14.
The solution of the conflict in the story.
a)
Mood/Atmosphere
b)
Resolution/Denouement
c)
Repeition
d)
Allusion
15.
The high point or turning point of action in a story.
a)
Plot
b)
Climax
c)
Rhyme
d)
Simile
16.
A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word.
a)
Conflict
b)
Exposition
c)
Connotation
d)
Repetition
17.
A recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme.
a)
Plot
b)
Motif
c)
Simile
d)
Tone
18.
The struggle between the character and anything outside of himself or herself.
a)
Conflict
b)
Internal Rhyme
c)
Internal Conflect
d)
External Conflict
19.
The repetition of consonant sounds generally at the beginning of words.
a)
Connotation
b)
Allusion
c)
Alliteration
d)
Falling Action
20.
Exaggeration
a)
Plot
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Tone
d)
Oxymoron
21.
A character that changes as a result of the events of the story.
a)
Character
b)
Dramatic Irony
c)
Dynamic Character
d)
Static Character
22.
The use of words that imitate or suggest sounds.
a)
Connotation
b)
Motif
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Simile
23.
The way a writer reveals the personality of a character.
a)
Personification
b)
Characterization
c)
Alliteration
d)
Exposition
24.
Language expanded beyond its literal meaning (examples: alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, idioms, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, simile, and symbolism)
a)
Alliteration
b)
Literary Elements
c)
Figurative Language
d)
Dialogue
25.
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports or science.
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Plot
c)
Allusion
d)
Dialect
26.
When two or more words have the same sound.
a)
Rhyme
b)
End Rhyme
c)
Tone
d)
Motif
27.
The beginning of a story.
a)
Connotation
b)
Exposition
c)
Allusion
d)
Alliteration
28.
A lengthy comparison between two unlike things developed over several lines of writing or even throughout the entire work.
a)
Rising Action
b)
Metaphor
c)
Extended Metaphor
d)
External COnflict
29.
The conflict of one person against another person.
a)
Person vs. Person
b)
Person vs. Self
c)
Person vs. Society
d)
Person vs. Nature
30.
A struggle within a character's own mind.
a)
Conflict
b)
Internal Rhyme
c)
Internal Conflict
d)
External Conflict
31.
Language that appeals to the senses (sight, touch, taste, smell or sound).
a)
Simile
b)
Imagery
c)
Irony
d)
Conflict
32.
A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
a)
Plot
b)
Tone
c)
Dialect
d)
Conflict
33.
The action following the climax; a cool down,
a)
Alliteration
b)
Rising Action
c)
Falling Action
d)
Connotation
34.
When human qualities are given to an animal or object.
a)
Rising Action
b)
Personification
c)
Onomatopoeias
d)
Characterization
35.
The conflict of a person/people and the views of the larger population.
a)
Person vs Person
b)
Person vs Nature
c)
Person vs Society
d)
Person vs Self
36.
The way of speaking that is characteristic (specific to) of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people.
a)
Imagery
b)
Plot
c)
Dialogue
d)
Dialect
37.
When a word or phrase of a line is repeated within the text, making the reader aware of a point being made by the author or the character.
a)
Setting
b)
Repetition
c)
Characterization
d)
Alliteration
38.
A character that changes very little or not at all through the literary work.
a)
Static Character
b)
Character
c)
Dynamic Character
d)
Dramatic Irony
39.
An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
a)
Theme
b)
Flashback
c)
Climax
d)
Dialect
40.
An expression/saying that means something different from its literal meaning.
a)
Irony
b)
Idiom
c)
Plot
d)
Simile
41.
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing.
a)
Character
b)
Setting
c)
Motif
d)
Metaphor
42.
Two opposite ideas combined into one term.
a)
Motif
b)
Oxymoron
c)
Allusion
d)
Rhyme
43.
The feeling created for the reader by an author.
a)
Theme
b)
Mood/Atmopshere
c)
Metaphor
d)
Tone
44.
The time and place of a work of literature.
a)
Motif
b)
Simile
c)
Setting
d)
Tone
45.
A conversation between two or more characters.
a)
Dialogue
b)
Dialect
c)
Directives
d)
Dictation
46.
The contrast between expectation (what is expected) and reality (what actually occurs).
a)
Idiom
b)
Irony
c)
Plot
d)
Tone
47.
A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well.
a)
Foreshadowing
b)
Symbolism/Symbol
c)
Solilioqy
d)
Oxymoron
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