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LITERATURE QUIZ (ELC121)

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The message the author is trying to get across.

a)

Story

b)

Plot

c)

Theme

d)

Conflict

2.

A narrator who is not a character in the story. Uses "she, he, they".

a)

3rd Person

b)

Main character

c)

1st Person

d)

Protagonist

3.

The narrator who is present in the story. Uses "we, I,".

a)

3rd Person

b)

1st Person

c)

Antogonist

d)

Old man

4.

A series of events (actions) that happen in the story.

a)

Setting

b)

Conflict

c)

Climax

d)

Plot

5.

The major turning point in the story

a)

Plot

b)

Climax

c)

Conflict

d)

Setting

6.
Which type of literature is a work where the characters and events are invented by the writer?
a)
Non Fiction
b)
Fiction
c)
Expository
7.
What is the message or lesson of the story called?
a)
Theme
b)
Climax
c)
Falling Action
8.
Who is the Protagonist of a story?
a)
The conversation between characters.
b)
The main character ("Good Guy") of the story.
c)
The opponent ("Bad Guy") that works against the main character.
9.
Who is the opponent ("Bad Guy") that works against the main character in a story called?
a)
Protagonist
b)
1st Person
c)
Antagonist
10.
What is the emotional highpoint of a story?
a)
Resolution
b)
Climax
c)
Exposition
11.
The beginning of a story that may include the introduction of characters and the setting is called...?
a)
Falling Action
b)
Rising Action
c)
Exposition
12.
Falling Action is...?
a)
The events between the climax and resolution where the loose ends get tied up.
b)
The emotional highpoint of a story.
c)
The outcome of a story.
13.
The outcome (end result) of a story.
a)
Falling Action
b)
Climax
c)
Resolution
14.
A work of literature where the characters and event are real.
a)
Fiction
b)
Non Fiction
c)
Poetry
15.
People (or animals) that take part in the story's plot are called?
a)
Conflict
b)
Setting
c)
Characters
16.
Literature is broken into two types of literature first....What are they?
a)
Biography and Auto Biography
b)
Informational and Poetry
c)
Fiction and Non Fiction
17.

What type of conflict is person versus self?

a)

internal

b)

external

c)

person v. person

d)

person v. nature

18.

Which of the following is not an external conflict?

a)

person v. group

b)

person v. self

c)

person v. technology

d)

person v. fate

19.

What is a conflict?

a)

A struggle between two opposing forces

b)

The main idea of a text

c)

How the author feels about a topic

d)

The central idea of the text

20.

What is a theme?

a)

The main problem of the story

b)

How the characters are developed

c)

The universal message of a text

d)

The sequence of events of a story

21.

What is the end of the story called?

a)

exposition

b)

rising action

c)

falling action

d)

resolution

22.

At what point in the plot is the setting described?

a)

Climax

b)

Falling Action

c)

Resolution

d)

Exposition

24.

What is a symbol?

a)

The main problem of a story

b)

Where and when a story takes place

c)

A concrete object used to represent something else

d)

The events of the story

24.

What is a symbol?

a)

The main problem of a story

b)

Where and when a story takes place

c)

A concrete object used to represent something else

d)

The events of the story

25.

What is characterization?

a)

How the story is developed

b)

How a characters are developed

c)

How the problem is developed

d)

How the story end

27.

The setting includes:

a)

time and characters

b)

place and background

c)

background and characters

d)

time and place

27.

The setting includes:

a)

time and characters

b)

place and background

c)

background and characters

d)

time and place

28.

Rising action is:

a)

the most exciting part of the story; turning point

b)

the ending of the story

c)

the action leading to the climax of the story

d)

the conflict in the story

29.

The falling action is:

a)

the time and place of the story

b)

the problem in the story

c)

the resolution of the story

d)

the events leading to the resolution of the story

30.

A dynamic character:

a)

does not change throughout the story

b)

is well-rounded; changes throughout the story

c)

is the most annoying character

d)

is not well-rounded, but could change throughout the story

31.

In a narrative or play, when two characters have a conversation it is known as_________?

a)

tone

b)

perspective

c)

mood

d)

dialogue