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WorksheetsLiterary Terms Quiz (TH English II)
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 45mins
Define: Flashback
An indication of events to come in a narrative. The author may introduce specific words, images, or actions in order to suggest significant later events.
refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context of preceding actions.
A scene relived in a character's memory, which may show the reader something significant that happened in the character's past or give an indication of what kind of person the character used to be.
A moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered. An epiphany generally occurs near the end of a story.
What is a Complication?
The introduction of significant development in the central conflict between characters (or between a character and his or her situation) in a story.
The central struggle between two or more forces in a story. Opposition can arise from another character, external events, preexisting situations, fate, or even some aspect of the main character's own personality.
The point in a narrative when the crucial action, decision, or realization must be made.
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work.
Unified Plot? Huh.
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work.
A plot in which the continuity of events is patterned rather than episodic. The sequence of events and actions is carefully constructed to achieve a particular effect.
A form of plotting where the individual scenes and events are presented chronologically without any profound sense of cause-and-effect relationship.
A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event that is found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras.
An indication of events to come in a narrative. The author may introduce specific words, images, or actions in order to suggest significant later events.
Archetype
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Crisis
A narrative in which the main character, usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an important experience (or "rite of passage”) that prepares him or her for some aspect of adulthood.
Initiation Story
Epiphany
Character Motivation
Stream of consciousness
A type of narration in which the narrator is a nonparticipant. In a third-person narrative, the characters are referred to as "he," "she," or "they."
first-person narrator
unreliable narrator
third-person narrator
editorial point of view
term to describe a narrator—not the author-whose perceptions shape the way a story is presented.
authorial intrusion
editorial point of view
dramatic point of view
atmosphere
Local Color? (Why is there no foreign color...ignore this comment)
The small world as created by the narrative that reflects in its telling the tensions of the larger world beyond.
Effect conveyed by the author's use of language images, and physical setting
The literary representation of a specific locale that consciously uses the particulars of geography, custom, history, folklore, or speech
The use of specific regional material-unique customs, dress, habits, and speech patterns of ordinary people—to create atmosphere or realism in a literary work.
What is Tone?
The attitude or feeling that an author communicates through a narrative. It may communicate many emotions including amusement, anger, affection, sorrow, and contempt.
All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period use language to create a literary work.
A form of plotting where the individual scenes and events are presented chronologically without any profound sense of cause-and-effect relationship
Refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context or proceeding actions
All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period use language to create a literary work.
Microcosm
Style
Regionalism
Local Color
A common or stereotypical character that occurs frequently in literature. Examples: the mad scientist, the battle-scarred veteran, or the strong-but-silent cowboy.
flat character
dynamic character
stock character
static character
Not a specific technique, but a type of modern narration that uses various literary devices, especially interior monologue, in an attempt to duplicate the subjective and associative nature of human consciousness. ("Mental Diarrhea")
stream of consciousness
interior monologue
limited omniscient narrator
point of view
The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative.
(HINT: WATCH YOUR SPELLING)
Antigonist
Antihero
Antagonist
Round Character
The reasons a reader is given for a character's actions.
Character Motivation
Epiphany
Archetype
Character Development
A voice or character that tells the story and provides the reader with information and insight about the characters and incidents in a narrative.
Point of view
Narrator
Omniscient Narrator
Historical Fiction
The effect that occurs when a third-person narrator adds his or her own comments (which presumably represent the ideas and opinions of the author) into the narrative.
Theme
Unreliable Narrator
Editorial Point of View
Minimalism
in which the narrator merely reports dialogue and action with the minimal interpretation or access to the characters' minds.
Interior Monologue
point of view
Locale
Magic Realism
The general idea or insight revealed in a narrative.
Theme
Setting
Plot
Atmosphere
the author ties everything up at the end of the story so that little is left unresolved.
closed dénouement
open dénouement
resolution/dénouement
epiphany
term to describe a character with only one outstanding trait, rarely the central character, and stays the same throughout the story
flat character
round character
dynamic character
stock character
The process in which a character is introduced, advanced, and possibly transformed into a story.
Character development
Character motivation
Exposition
Plot
The particular arrangement of actions, events, and situations that unfold in a narrative. The general story of a narrative but the author's artistic pattern made from the parts of the narrative, including the exposition, complications, climax, and dénouement.
Plot
In media res
Episodic Plot
Unified Plot
The central struggle between two or more forces in a story. It generally occurs when some person or thing prevents the protagonist from achieving his or her intended goal.
Conflict
Peripeteia
Crisis
Interior Monologue
The location where a story takes place.
Local Color
Setting
Locale
Atmosphere
Epiphany?
A surprising climax that depends on a quick reversal of the situation from an unexpected source
A moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered.
The process in which a character is introduced, advanced, and possibly transformed into a story.
The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a narrative.
Define Regionalism
The literary representation of a specific locale that consciously uses the particulars of geography, custom, history, folklore, or speech
The use of specific regional material-unique customs, dress, habits, and speech patterns of ordinary people—to create atmosphere or realism in a literary work.
A type of contemporary narrative in which the magical and the mundane are mixed in an overall context of realistic storytelling.
A form of plotting where the individual scenes and events are presented chronologically without any profound sense of cause-and-effect relationship.
written in a flat, unemotional tone and an appropriately unadorned (minimal) style
Microcosm
Style
Tone
Minimalism
Define Microcosm
The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a narrative.
All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period use language to create a literary work.
The small world as created by the narrative that reflects in its telling the tensions of the larger world beyond.
A type of point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters.
A type of point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters
limited omniscient narrator
omniscient narrator
unreliable narrator
first-person narrator
A story in which the narrator is a participant in the action. Such a narrator refers to himself or herself as “I” and maybe a major or minor character in the story.
protagonist
third-person narrator
first-person narrator
antagonist
Dramatic Point of View :O
The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a narrative.
All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period use language to create a literary work.
A point of view in which the narrator merely reports dialogue and action with the minimal interpretation or access to the characters' minds.
The attitude or feeling that an author communicates through a narrative. The narrative may communicate many emotions including amusement, anger, affection, sorrow, and contempt.
A narrator who-intentionally or unintentionally relates events in a subjective or distorted manner.
unreliable narrator
omniscient narrator
static character
third-person narrator
An extended presentation of a character's thoughts in a narrative. Usually written in the present tense and printed without quotation marks, it reads as if the character were speaking aloud to himself or herself for the reader to overhear.
point of view
stream of consciousness
denouement/resolution
interior monologue
A character who, during the course of the narrative,
grows or changes in some significant way.
flat character
static character
dynamic character
round character
Those who change significantly during the course of a narrative. Most often, they are the central characters in a narrative and are very well developed regarding personality traits and background. (I added to this definition because it is very close to another.)
dynamic character
round character
static character
flat character
The main or central character in a narrative. (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Simon, Elie Wiesel, Elle Woods....)
protagonist
antagonist
antihero
just a character who spends his or her time trying to be tiktok famous
the author ends a narrative with a few loose ends, or unresolved matters, on which the reader is left to speculate
open dénouement
closed dénouement
resolution/denouement
exposition
O. Henry ending: (Also called Trick Ending)
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work.
A sudden change of circumstance affecting the protagonist of a narrative.
A surprising climax that depends on a quick reversal of the situation from an unexpected source.
refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context of preceding actions.
A form of plotting where the individual scenes and events are presented chronologically without any profound sense of cause-and-effect relationship.
unified plot
conflict
complication
episodic plot
in media res
refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context of preceding actions.
A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event that is found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras.
The opening portion of a story during which the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other background information necessary to allow the reader to understand and relate to the events that are to follow.
The events in a narrative that follow the climax and bring the story to its conclusion, or dénouement.
The final part of a narrative, the concluding action or actions that follow the climax.
exposition
in media res
complication
denouement/resolution
The events in a narrative that follow the climax and bring the story to its conclusion, or dénouement.
rising action
falling action
resolution
climax
A moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered. *light bulb turns on*
Epiphany
Character Motivation
Character Development
Peripeteia
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work
Complication
Conflict
Climax
Crisis
The part of a narrative preceding the climax.
Plot
Falling Action
Rising Action
Episodic Plot
A sudden change of circumstance affecting the protagonist of a narrative. This change may affect him or her contrary to the way it had been intended.
Character Development
Character Motivation
Resolution
Peripeteia
A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event that is found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras.
Antihero
Archetype
Third-Person Narrator
Local Color
What is an Exposition?
The opening portion of a story during which the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other background information necessary to allow the reader to understand and relate to the events that are to follow.
A surprising climax that depends on a quick reversal of the situation from an unexpected source.
The particular arrangement of actions, events, and situations that unfold in a narrative.
A sudden change of circumstance affecting the protagonist of a narrative. This change may affect him or her contrary to the way it had been intended.
Crisis?
The central struggle between two or more forces in a story
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work.
Oh lord, the world is burning?
The point in a narrative when the crucial action, decision, or realization must be made.
antihero...
A protagonist who is lacking in one or more of the conventional qualities attributed to a hero
The main or central character in a narrative
The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative.
The process in which a character is introduced, advanced, and possibly transformed into a story.
A fixed character who remains unchanged during the course of a narrative.
static character
flat character
round character
dynamic character
A narrator who has the ability to move freely through the consciousness of any character. The narrator also has complete knowledge of all of the external events in a story.
limited omniscient narrator
third-person narrator
omniscient narrator
first-person narrator
The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a narrative.
setting
style
tone
atmosphere
A type of contemporary narrative in which the magical and the mundane are mixed in an overall context of realistic storytelling.
Microcosm
Regionalism
Magic Realism
Atmosphere
The time and place of a story. It may also include the climate and even the social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants.
Setting
Locale
Exposition
Plot
A type of fiction in which the narrative is set in another time or place. The author usually attempts to re-create a faithful picture of daily life during another era.
Historical Fiction
Minimalism
Magic Realism
Episodic Plot
